AFS Presents: THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS

Directed by Lewis Milestone
USA, 1946, 35mm, 116 min., B&W

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“A gripping film noir, all the more effective for being staged by Milestone as a steamy romantic melodrama.” – Time Out

Barbara Stanwyck is at her best as a woman whose deep, dark secret, shared only with two childhood friends, one now a hard-drinking district attorney (Kirk Douglas in his first role), and the other the man she loved as a child, rises up to confront the pair years later and sets off a chain reaction that threatens to destroy them all. A classic, intriguing noir melodrama that features a stellar cast including Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott.

Part of our Essential Cinema: Stanwyck Noir series: https://www.austinfilm.org/essentialcinema

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