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Mother Knows Worst. Investigation soon revealed that Mrs. Q was the dominant character and the root of the family troubles. She used her ulcer and her bad teeth to help maintain her rule. One of her favorite subjects was an older daughter, Laura, who had died at eight of a bad heart. Laura had been a paragon of beauty and intelligence and, in Mrs. Q's opinion, Catherine resembled her. Result: Catherine, whose intelligence was mediocre, overworked at school to get good marks, and developed imitative heart trouble. In contrast, Mrs. Q considered Agnes "dumb," the symbol...
...Laura" rates high for suspense value. Although Gene Tierney, who plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...
...Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...
...Laura (Gene Tierney) is an ambitious beginner in the advertising business when she dares to beard the exquisite columnist-commentator Waldo Lydecker (Webb) in his noontime lair at the Algonquin. Though her nerve earns her some carbolic insults from the great man, it makes her in almost no time his protegee. As such, she soon becomes a high-powered executive and gives a job to polo-playing Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), under the very nose of his only visible means of support, Park Avenue's well-heeled Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson). Both Ann and Waldo are patently annoyed...
Whodunit becomes the problem of Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews), a police lieutenant with Racquet Club manners, who for the first time in Hollywood history arrives on the scene minus a stooging sergeant. Bristling with brains and breeding, Mark proceeds to track the murderer and fall for Laura. He catches both just in time to prevent another lovely face from being reduced to hamburger...