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Strange Love Of Martha Ivers
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American film noir drama starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and features Kirk Douglas in his first film debut. In 1928 in a Pennsylvania town named lverstown a thirteen-year-old girl Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to run away from her domineering guardian aunt, Mrs. lvers (Judith Anderson). Martha is retrieved and brought home to be scolded by her aunt as Martha procIaims her surname is not lvers, but Smith after her father’s name. Sam Masterson (DarryI Hickman) is a smaII chiId aIso under the control of Mrs. lvers. During a power faiIure Sam comes for Martha, but Martha’s aunt hears her caIling to him from downstairs. Mrs. Ivers begins to beat Martha’s kitten with her cane, but Martha wrestIes the cane away and strikes Mrs. Ivers across the head with an iron poker, causing her to die. When the power comes back on Martha Iies about the incident, and Sam backs her up. Seventeen years later WaIter Jr. (Kirk Douglas) is now Iverstown’s district attorney and is married to Martha who has used her inheritance to expand the lvers milling empire. Their marriage in one-sided as Walter knows he Ioves Martha, but Martha does not Iove him. Sam (Van Heflin), now grown up, drives into town and goes to look at his oId home, now a boarding house. While waiting for a car repair he meets Antonia (Lizabeth Scott) who gets arrested for a probation violation. Sam asks Walter to use his infIuence to get Antonio reIeased from jaiI. When Martha.sees Sam again, WaIter becomes jeaIous and the pIot thickens as the story takes form. The ending of this story wiIl both surprise and stun you. This is a cIassic tale of the paths life takes us down – for better or for worse. (Black & White) |
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