Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Gene Tierney delivers a chilling performance in this thrilling sunlit noir of obsession and control.
<em>Part of the series <a href="/technicolor-series">The Wonderful World of Technicolor</a>, a seven-week celebration of Technicolor’s most dazzling achievements, showcasing the films that define cinema’s golden age of colour. The Tuesday evening screening will be introduced by series curators Adam Cook and Hilary Jay.</em>
One of the most unusual films classified as film noir, <em>Leave Her to Heaven</em> stands apart as a rare Technicolor entry in a genre defined by shadows. Its radiant, almost hyperreal colour heightens the unsettling psychological drama at its core, turning landscapes and interiors into deceptively beautiful expressions of obsession and control. Gene Tierney delivers a chilling, career-defining performance as one of cinema’s most memorable femme fatales, a socialite who seduces a famous writer and will destroy anything that comes between them. This is noir reimagined as sunlit psychodrama—setting Tierney’s icy precision against some of the most dazzling images ever produced in a Hollywood thriller.DramaPT1H50MRated PG2026-02-14Gene Tierney
Cornel Wilde
Jeanne Crain
John M. Stahl
William A. Bacher
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