Niagara

+ recorded intro by film critic Christina Newland

In this sensational noir, Marilyn Monroe’s unsettling antics disturb a honeymooning couple.

  • Director

    Henry Hathaway

  • With

    Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter

  • USA 1953. 92min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    PG

  • A BFI National Archive print

In one of her very best dramatic performances, Monroe is the sultry wife of Cotten’s unstable army veteran, whose presence and troubled relationship unsettles the honeymoon of another couple at Niagara Falls. Sensual, dazzling and conniving, Monroe’s femme fatale drives this thrilling noir. A famous sequence in which Monroe deploys a now iconic hip-swinging walk, demonstrates her skilful ability to use her body as an instrument to express character.

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