Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
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Top Billed Cast
Marilyn Monroe
Rose Loomis
Joseph Cotten
George Loomis
Jean Peters
Polly Cutler
Max Showalter
Ray Cutler
Denis O'Dea
Inspector Starkey
Richard Allan
Patrick
Don Wilson
Mr. J.C. Kettering
Lurene Tuttle
Mrs. Kettering
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2019-06-07
The Belles and the Bells.
Niagara Falls, so often a place of honeymoon love is the setting for this engrossing and gripping thriller directed with tight astuteness by the brilliant Henry Hathaway. Hathaway works from a screenplay collectively written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard L. Breen. It stars Joseph Cotton, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Peters, Max Showalter (as Casey Adams), Denis O'Dea and Richard Allan. Music is by Sol Kaplan and cinematography by Joseph MacDonald.
Plot wise it's very simple, the core essence that of an unfaithful wife scheming against her husband - thus...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2026-03-01
Right from the outset, this has the look of an Hitchcock mystery to it. Indeed, the opening bars of Sol Kaplan’s score sound very Herrmann-esque as we open with some grand scale photography of the Falls. That’s where we meet newlyweds “Polly” (Jean Peters) and “Ray” (Max Showalter) who have arrived on the Canadian side for a few days in a cabin overlooking the spray. Thing is, the previous residents haven’t checked-out and “Rose” (Marilyn Monroe) insists her husband “George” (Joseph Cotton) is too ill to travel. It emerges fairly swiftly that she is a bit of a temptress a...
