Laura1955
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Directed by John Brahm. With George Sanders, Dana Wynter, Robert Stack, Scott Forbes
English subtitles available at open subtitles org but you must search with the title A portrait of murder.This was a TV film but recorded without commercials and the title is Laura.Below from imbd
The TV film "Laura" from 1955 was directed by the distinguished German-born Hollywood director John Brahm. Like so many directors in Hollywood, he started his career in Germany but left for the USA well before the Second World War. He is most famous for a handful of films he made during the forties, in particular for "The Lodger" (1944), "Hangover Square" (1945) and "The Locket" (1946). However, during the fifties, in common with so many of the émigré directors who failed to reach the same stellar status as Preminger, Curtiz and Wilder, he turned to directing for television and disappeared from the horizon producing endless productions in various TV series. Brahm is supposed to have ended up directing 150-200 television films. One of these is "Laura", which was part of a 20th Century Fox Television drama series. The film is also known by the title "A Portrait of Murder", perhaps to avoid confusion with the famous Preminger version of "Laura" (1944), or for unknown copyright reasons. It is stated as being a 60 min production, but obviously there were plenty of advertisements, as the complete advertisement-free version I have seen runs only for 43 min, and the title is "Laura" rather than "A Portrait of a Murder"! For film buffs it is interesting to compare this slightly abridged version with Preminger's film made 11 years earlier. The plot is the same and most characters are kept in the later version. The stellar cast from the original version led by Tierney, Andrews, Price and Anderson was naturally difficult to match in the low-budget TV production. In this version of "Laura" the detective (McPherson) is played by Robert Stack, a rather wooden actor for the role. However, the acerbic and witty character of Waldo Lydecker is in this version played by George Sanders, and he is, in my mind, clearly superior to Clifton Webb in the same role in Preminger's version who was too histrionic and effeminate. The main reason for watching this TV film is indeed the presence of George Sanders, who has so many fans around the world thanks to the mostly cynical characters that he portrayed during his long career, which saw him work in so many films both in Hollywood and in Europe (including with Rossellini). He often plays secondary roles, but when you see his name in the cast, even in minor films, you can always be assured of a solid performance, often delivered with the most subtle subdued humour and cynicism.
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For someone that has watched the original "Laura" over 100 times, I tried to watch this...even with my favorite George Sanders, I can't get through this. Just too dedicated to the perfection of the original.
Me too! Laura is my go to movie when I just want to fall sleep listening to lyrical voices. I adore the captivating voice of the great Vincent Price. I didn’t know this version of Laura existed. George Sanders voice is also spectacular, particularly his work in Disney’s The Jungle Book. Glad to know there are other crazed fans of Laura.
Same. Original was amazing, this one...not so much.
let me see if i got this right, laura was a hoe?
I tried. I couldn't finish it. Some things, like classic movies, should just be left alone.
Totally agree with you. The original Laura is unbeatable. I never tire of watching it. This is a cheap imitation.
It doesn't match the beauty and quality of the original, still it is cozy and entertaining. It gives us a chance to see how a different director and different actors handle the material. Thank you for posting! :-)
Perfectly said.
I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable film fan, but I have never seen, or even heard of, this version of "Laura." Thanks for putting it up.
oh, I could watch George Sanders reading a phone book out loud and I'd be still mesmerised. Anything with him must be great, or rather, he is always great, no matter what he is in.
George Sanders's vocal delivery is truly inimitable; although I have tried a weak attempt or two after one too many....
I hate to say this, as I LOVE George Sanders so very much, but late in his career he did some really crappy movies... however, his freaking amazing voice never waned. ❤️
I have a notion to second that emotion ! He had one of the GREATEST voices ever ! Such a fine actor !
Yes he is
I like him too but this movie is awful. I may just be spoiled by the original.
I really enjoyed this movie. Robert Stack, Dana Wynter, George Sanders, Scot Forbes, gave terrific preformances. Good script.
Wowsy! Well, for those of us who haven't seen the original "Laura" for years, this was an exciting reminder. Great acting by G. Sanders and Dana Wynter.
As a recent "Noir" film buff, I found myself constantly imagining Robert Stack's part being played by George Raft! 😁 Similar acting style, but I missed Raft's intensity and that menacing voice (more lively in his earlier films and also missing his smooth dance moves). Raft would have tucked in his hankie before telling Lydecker: " You like being unconscious", followed by a knockout punch in the face.
Thanks for this gem. 😁
I think you mean Dana Andrews in Laura 1944 by Preminger
@@seglora7219 Sorry! Did I mix up the two Danas?
I don't know, I wonder if the Robert Stack part would be better played by, I don't know, someone like Dana Andrews? This version seems SO unnecessary, no matter what a rat GS makes.
Nothing beats the original but I do love Robert stack as he played on my favorite show
Happy Wednesday! Thanks for the upload. 23/2/2023 London UK 🇬🇧
George Sanders was an acting god. Loved seeing his take on Waldo.
Robert Stack actually knew about guns. He set two skeet shooting records and was national champion.
Nothing can ever be as good as the original 1944 film classic. I will say I was surprised that is was as good as it was. I was especially impressed w/ Dana Wynter . She brought her own sensitivity & glowing presence to the part. Robert Stack being considered ," too wooden..." I just thought he brought that to all his characters. McPherson's character always seemed that was part of his personality. I agree w/ you about George Saunders, he was perfect as Waldo. One of my all time fav. films.(1944). This did it justice
Remember, this is made-for-tv vs. HOLLYWOOD ...
I totally agree!
This just doesn’t make it. When they make such a great movie like the 1944 version why try to remake it??
Because this was before the studio decided to release most of their older films to television, beginning in 1956 (to local stations, starting with a "package" of pre-1949 movies through National Telefilm Associates).
You’re absolutely right! If it isn’t Gene Tierney, it isn’t “Laura”!😘🙏💕💜✡️🕊✝️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙋♀️🌹
I totally agree with you
@@johnkearns4790 I also saw the several remakes of “Ten Little Indians” by Agatha Christie and none equal the original. God have mercy if rhey try to remake Casablanca. I’ll scream!
Because…….well, George Sanders!
I had no idea there had been a remake of “Laura”. True It doesn’t have the same tension as the original but I still love it. Good casting. Especially George Sander’s and his sexually ambiguous delivery of Lydecker. As for Laura...it’s difficult to cast someone as compelling as inaccessible yet sensual as Gene Tierney. Had we not already been seduced by her...Dana Winters would have been fine. She’s a good actress but (forgive my sexism) she just doesn’t smolder”. I especially like the direction. Almost feels like watching a stage production. Very clever.
"Lydecker you must enjoy being unconscious !"
Best line in the film!
Scott Forbes & Robert Stac, I have died and gone to heaven. I love these two actors and it was directed by
John Brahms, for television no less. If quality television programming of this extent still existed, I would watch television
Thank you so much for the upload.
If you love Stack so much why can’t you even spell his name right?
Interesting remake with major wonderful actors. Thanks for posting this film. I didn't know it existed.
Thanks for posting! I've been looking for this for nearly 20 years.
Thank you, George Sanders isa favorite.
Stack is a combination of every trait a cop is supposed to possess. He lumbers,even keeps his hat on and pauses more than Gary Cooper.
WOW it's a fantastic great movie that I enjoyed watching a lot without commercials too
Thanks for the upload SEGlora
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for me gene Tierney is The laura
Amen to that !! :-)
Me too. And the whole cast couldn't be beat
Agree.
Okay, I’m a big fan of both Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews and Laura is one of my favorite movies. However, this only pales when compared to the original. George Sanders is one of my favorites (he dominated All About Eve) and Dana Wynter was a great actress and beauty in her own right. While I prefer the original, this is superb television!
Spot on about Saunder's. Have always been a great fan. For that matter all you write is spot
on.
George Sanders would have been a seamless fit in the original movie. Clifton Webb was a bit unbelievable as a romantic interest for a young woman. Maybe Sanders was too young to play the older man in the 1940’s. But evil spirited, manipulative, elitist ! He was the perfect nasty guy in Rebecca. Robert Stack was miscast in this.
i enjoyed watching this remake....not that good but im glad Ive now seen it. TY for providing this interesting George Sander project.
Well, a short entertaining drama👍! I enjoyed the dialogues, it kept my interest to watch until the end🙂. Thank you
OMG, I had no idea there was a remake, thank you for uploading.
I must say, that the actress who plays Laura is not a patch on Gene Tierney, she completely lacks GT charisma, love George Sanders, but the rest of the cast was much better in the original version. This is a very enjoyable movie in it's own right, but remakes are very rarely as good, or better than the originals...
here here! sooo happy about this upload, thank you!!!
It's really a TV show, an episode of 20TH CENTURY FOX PRSENTS which was a whole series of remakes for TV of Fox films.
Thank you, good to know!..
You can't see the original because it is blocked. It has a huge light in the center, that ruins the screen. They want money for that one.
"I am one of the most widely misquoted men in America"..., I agree with both ptashkaful and Adele, Thanks for the upload of this alternate, abbreviated TV version...
Elliot Ness...Robert Stack...always the serious actor
They made a TV movie version of this about 13 years later. Sanders and Stack re-enacted their 1955 roles, and I believe it was movie length. Laura was portrayed by Lee Raziwill, credited as Lee Bouvier. She was a relative of Jackie Kennedy, and she was bad. She was no Dana Wynter, let alone Gene Tierney.
Lee Bouvier Radziwill was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's sister.
@@bluecollarlit Which is probably the only reason she got the role. Teaming her with Stack and Sanders, two fine actors, made her look worse.
I love Sanders in every film I've seen him in
As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !! :-)
Agreed - he is unique, quite talented, unusually good looking, fine actor, and unbeatable accent and delivery.
S exactly
At least Laura is alive. I am glad I don't have to only look at a painting
There’s no comparison-to the original- none!
George Sanders and Robert Stack also worked together a few years later in the Andrew Stone production of "The Last Voyage".
Robert Stack was awesome n sooo Eliot Ness from the Untouchables T.V. Series!!! VERY good movie, always enjoyed George Sanders.
George Sanders is the best in this Laura. But the other two characters playing Laura and the detective can't hold a candle to Gene Teriney and Dana Andrews.
Three days and the area around door is spotless.
Not bad, for a remake ... Stark is truly fantastic, perhaps with a much more fleshed-out interpretation than Dana Andrew's, Gene Tierney was the best, and so was Vincent Price as Carpenter. and Sanders is always a joy to watch with his oleogenous evil!
First of all thank you for this. I'd heard of this production and the 1968 Truman Capote production. Robert Stack, he seems to be well into his Elliott Ness character a full four years before "The Untouchables" debut...I expected him to call for Rico and Youngblood at any moment. I ADORE George Sanders, but sadly he must have needed the money at this point. Finally, ironic that the female lead actress was Dana Wynter and in the 1944 original version the male lead is Dana Andrews....and in the 1944 original the producer was OTTO PREMINGER and in this 1955 version the producer is Otto???? forget his name.
Original film was the best. 100%.
"Thank heaven for that!"...nice one Mr. Stack
Thank you for posting this.
Trivia: George Sanders had earlier starred in Laura director John Brahm's Film Noir classics The Lodger (1944) & Hangover Square (1945).
Indeed ! And he starred as Simon Templar ("The Saint") in a handful of screen mysteries for the RKO studio. Aso while at RKO he also starred as "The Falcon", a character a lot like "The Saint". When he left RKO, George's real life brother (actor Tom Conway) took over the role. Amazing how much George & Tom sounded alike; though they didn't look much alike.
Love all the actors, but this film is a shadow of the original.
I HAD VIEW THE ORIGINAL AND THIS ONE I ENJOY TOO! BUT THE ORIGINAL WAS SO MORE EXCITING, BECAUSE OF THE OLDER MALE ACTORS AND THE YOUNG WOMAN ACTRESS., THE ONE PLAYING THE CHARACTER OF LAURA]!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😅😅😅😮😅😮
Excellent upload thank you very much
Robert Stack and George Sanders reprised these roles for a 1968 TV version that starred Lee Radziwell (Jackie Kennedy's sister) as Laura. I haven't seen it, but I know it's not a lost film because back around 1979, a friend of mine mentioned having just seen it on tv in a letter to me. So, someone somewhere probably has a video of it to upload.
Thankyou for sharing. I've only seen the original with gene Tierney. I love that one and Robert stack came on my favorite show of unsolved mysteries so this is a lovely find.
English actor Scott Forbes played Shelby Carpenter in this version. Scott Forbes gave a terrific performance a year later as Jim Bowie in 76 episodes of a 1956-58 series, made by the producers of "Wyatt Earp".
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Leave well enough alone...I love the original
George Sanders is a favourite, absolutely fantastic actor. The movie is closer to the novel. if you ever want a wonderful read, Heady Lamar's Autobiography is a hoot, one of her husbands was George Sanders.
How "convenient" that Waldo goes into a long winded dialogue , about his motive . Just to give the detective time to run back into the house to save Laura. lol
This version of "Laura" was made in 1955, eleven years after the original movie. In 1968 another television remake of "Laura" appeared, also with Robert Stack and George Sanders. Lee Radzwill played Laura. Lee was the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy. Farley Granger ("Strangers on a Train", "Rope") played Shelby Carpenter. Sexy Arlene Francis also appeared in the role Judith Anderson played in the movie. The producer of the new version was the ambitious David Susskind ("Open End", "East Side West Side", "NYPD", "Fear on Trial"). The director was John Llewellyn Moxey ("The Night Stalker" pilot with Darren McGavin). The screenplay was co-written by Truman Capote. Truman Capote could have made a good Waldo. It would have interesting if Susskind had been able to get his pal George C. Scott to play Mark McPherson. Robert Stack was 36 in the first TV version and 49 in the second. Stack would be one of the stars of "The Name of the Game" two years later.
A great movie.......wow
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A Portrait of Murder
I was confused for a minute because I didn't remember Robert Stack being in this movie, but I have the one with Jean Tierney. I didn't know they had made another one.
Very well done 👍🏾
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The original film Laura from 1944 by Preminger is very difficult to get on you tube and they are usually distorted versions. However I was surprised that the film company 20th Century Fox has uploaded the whole film on archive org on their own web page archive.org/details/LauraNtsc
Very difficult to understand why this nice and clean version cannot be uploaded on you tube considering that most things on arch org should be in public domain.So you could compare this short TV version with the original one above and I have also a German version on this channel with subtitles for even a third film version of Vera Caspary's novel. So you could compare three different Lauras and three different Waldos, all very famous thespians!
Thank you for the link to the archive! I was able to watch the original there(for free). I had never heard of the site before, either. Very helpful. 😊
Interesting to see a different take from the movie version.
Interesting redux of Laura 1944. TV version done over a decade later still uses some of the original furniture. Those bookcases in
Waldo Lydecker's apartment also appeared in many FOX films including How To Marry A Millionaire. Also, that mirror over the mantle appeared in everything since sound including Millionaire to Vally Of The Dolls. Robert Stack was quite a famous stud in Hollywood. His best friend John F. Kennedy and he didn't miss a star or starlet in tinseltown, in fact the star of the original Laura, Gene Tierney was a major love of JFK's. She might have become Mrs. K had she been Catholic. None of that matters today, the first lady poses nude now, no biggie.
Get out more often, lol
@@oluhamilton2121 I apologize for having knowledge!
No need, your are informative. Didn't know Tierney and JFK were boinking.
She was married to Oleg Cassini then. A Catholic president could never have had a previously divorced wife back then.
I took a break from watching wonderfully written and acted British films to watch this American version. What detective wouldn’t check her apt before leaving to search for him elsewhere ?!
A truncated version of the original but not bad at all.
I agree that it's not bad...but they certainly had to revise the script to lot to fit it into the one hour running time !
Good one. Thanks
How many versions are there of Laura? One version had the song 'I See Laura' whih people sang ( sometime in the late 1940s. One version with Richard Boone.
Robert Stack has to be one of the stiffest actors I have ever seen right up there with Jack Webb.
4 years before Stack played Elliott Ness.
I never saw this version. Very strange.
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Agree original Laura.
This one obviously slipped over from a parallel universe while everyone was sleeping.
I had no idea anyone would be so foolish to remake Laura!
Robert Stack did this AGAIN, in another remake for TV in the late 60s.
A gig is a gig. Georgie Sanders ain't no Clifton Webb.
GS, my all time favorite actor, did a fine job; but Clifton was flawless in this role.
Steve Burstein that's funny, the way you said he Did This AGAIN...!!! LoL
Clifton Webb was prevented from appearing and acting on television because of his Fox movie contract.
@@fromthesidelines Isn't Clifton Webb the one that play in a number of the Mr. Belverdere's movies ? January 16,2021
I liked Dana Andrews in the part, as well as the others...and there were parts that I liked better than the original rendition....but it was too short!
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•Anticlimactic ending. 😔
•Weak storyline.
•killer's logic wasn't plausible. More logial he should have considered eliminating her boyfriend (just as evil of him), reserving 'Laura' for further grooming efforts.
Great remake of the original...outstanding!!!
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I thought it was quite good. Im not an aficionado of the movie, I saw it years ago. I don't know Scott Forbes at all, I thought I knew all those people way back. Maybe he died young ? Hey, I was born in '55 ! Hang in there.
Where’s the other half of movie?
There is no other half.This is an abridged TV version.
I didn't know about this production of one of my favorite films/TV shows, "Laura". It wasn't as good as the original Dana Andrews/Gene Tierney/Clifton Webb version, but it's better than the Lee Radziwill version. All three are very good.
Thanks for the reply. Interesting that someone has seen the Radziwill version as this version seems impossible to view now or to get hold of a copy.
@@seglora7219 I saw the original way back in the mid 1960s. I think the reason why the Radziwill version is hard to find is it was so AWFUL! Lee Radziwill was terrible in the role of the beautiful Laura. She was a terrible actress, and, if my memory is accurate, she was mocked and was ridiculed for her effort. She probably made sure this video was made impossible to find! That's my memory and opinion on why it's not available these days.
@@elainesmith7512 Thank you for the reply.Explains that it is not available which is a shame as the other actors might have been better and interesting to compare.
@@seglora7219 You're welcome, but the fact that I am able to recall after over 50(1968) years how AWFUL Lee's performance was should tell you something. I have read that the only copy available is at the Paley Media Center on a request only basis. I don't remember Robert Stack's, Farley Granger's or any of the other's performances because she was so AWFUL. In fact, it was comical!🤦♀️🤢 I hope you get to see it someday.
@@elainesmith7512 Many thanks.Now we know the reasons for the single copy around. I know Americans are not keen of subtitled foreign films but there is another TV version from Germany of Laura available on this channel with Anton Walbrook(from Gaslight)as Leydecker and the reknown German actress Hildegard Knef as Laura.
Hey Unsolved Mysteries dude!!
I thought the cast superb, excepting Robert Stack who was miscast.
Like... very much
Robert Stack Pre-Ness!
Wasn't there another version with Lee Radziwill playing Laura? I may have it mixed up with something else.
You are right. According to imbd this was a TV version (long 2h) from 1968 with Robert Stack and George Sanders again in the same roles as in this version and Truman Capote was involved in the script of Vera Caspary's novel. I don't think the 1968 version is easily available, at least not on RUclips. However,John Brahm, the director of this short TV version from 1955,seemed to have a great talent for short movies.I recommend his fantastic brilliant short version of Joseph Conrad's "Secret Sharer" with James Mason available on RUclips ruclips.net/video/x94VM2E0gp4/видео.html
@@seglora7219 THANKS for all the info about the 1968 TV version ! Sounds fascinating ! I'd sure love to to see it !
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Not a patch on the original. That is being shown on Talking Pictures on Thursday.
Good one
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The classic line at 32:37, "you must enjoy being unconscious " then knocks the guy out. Then they have a drink.
This looks to be adapted from the stage play, adapted by Vera Caspary from her novel.
How is this movie only 45 minutes long in this version?
This is a TV version
8:55 I thought Ness was going to smash the bottle
Oh yes and there's another version of Laura.
Was that the one with Lee Radziwill?
I am big fan of Sands I loved him in All about Eve but this part was all Clifton Webb's.
Did Bob Stack ever take of his hat?
So this was where they got part of the plot line for the Burt Reynold's flick, Sharkey's Machine where Rachel Ward is supposed to get blasted with a shotgun and then appears to a startled Burt Reynolds. Terrific movies, both of them.
This really takes hutzpah, you know. The first is always the best; this isn't even second best. Sanders isn't Webb, and who could even dare to take Tierney's place? No one can remake perfect.
I think they should create. a law that forbids remakes of any sort.
I don't know why Clifton web played Lydecker. This actor was married to a Gabor I don't recall his name but will look it up.
Is this movie only 43 minutes
No. Not as good as the original. But quite good and stands on its own. Dana Wynter is always adorable and although she didn't have the scope in this short version to play Laura, as Gene Tierney did, does on the film Dana is good. It was worth watching.
Oh this is a remake well it's not as good as the 1944 version with Gene Tierney. Clifton Webb had an actual unpleasant quality and sarcasm this actor has the cultural snob correct but lacks the sneaky underlying smell.
Does anyone know where I could find the Lee Radziwill 1968 version of Laura?
VERY good question ! I'd like to see that myself !