Laura

Adapted from Vera Caspary’s bestselling 1943 novel, Laura turns a murder investigation into one of the most haunting and unconventional romances in American cinema with a story that helped redefine the possibilities of film noir. Clifton Webb received an Academy Award nomination for his unforgettable performance as the acerbic columnist Waldo Lydecker, while Gene Tierney’s Laura became one of the genre’s most iconic characters.

In one of the most celebrated 1940s film noirs, Manhattan detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the murder of Madison Avenue executive Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) in her fashionable apartment. On the trail of her murderer, McPherson quizzes Laura’s arrogant best friend, gossip columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) and her comparatively mild fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). As the detective grows obsessed with the case, he finds himself falling in love with the dead woman.