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"This mystery revolves around the murder of two burlesque starlets. With everyone in the cast a suspect, the suspense rises until the well concealed murderer is finally discovered in a surprising ending."@en
"A small-town ice queen grows suspicious when an old flame appears, so she and her district attorney husband hatch a plot to run him out of town."@en
"A small-town ice queen grows suspicious when an old flame appears, so she and her district attorney husband hatch a plot to run him out of town."
"Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) and Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), through inheritance and manipulation have risen to prominence and wealth. They are suddenly faced with memories of murder in their past and the threat of exposure when Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) returns to town."
"Martha Ivers and subservient husband share a dark secret. As a child Martha murdered her tyrannical aunt, an act witnessed by her husband and also by her childhood sweetheart Sam Masterson. An innocent man was execcuted for the crime and their lives have been riddled with guilt and remorse since. When Sam returns to town, Martha and Walter panic. Forever linked by the incident, the three characters find themselves in a bizarre power struggle that threatens to destroy them all."@en
"A tale of intrigue involving childhood friends and a mysterious death that happened years before. Martha Ivers is the power behind things in the town of Iverston and is married to Walter O'Neill, the district attorney. When their childhood friend Sam Masterson returns to town, it brings up powerful memories about their connection to the death of Martha's rich aunt years before and threatens to expose the truth."@en
"Stanwyck stars as the troubled woman who is hiding from the guilt of having committed a crime that another man pays for with his life."
"Relationships that were formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love."@en
"Feature film from the USA. Drama / film-noir. Martha Ivers, her submissive husband and her childhood lover share a dark secret from her past."
"When streetwise gambler Sam Masterson returns to his home town, childhood sweetheart Martha assumes he has come to blackmail her over the suspicious death of her aunt, which he witnessed years earlier. Thus begins a deadly game of cat and mouse, in which the wealthy and powerful Martha, whose husband is the local district attorney, attempts to threaten, connive and seduce the truth from Sam's clenched lips."@en
""In 1928 a young heiress, Martha Ivers, fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is instead involved in a series of fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find that Martha has gained immense power and has married the district attorney. Together they pull Sam into a convoluted web of deceit, corruption and ultimately a murder plot."--Container."
"Suspense-melodrama with film noir implications, directed by Lewis Milestone, with screenplay by Robert Rossen from an unpublished story by Jack Patrik."@en
"Based on an original story by Jack Patrick, this complex mystery has Martha (Stanwyck) tied to her weak husband (Douglas), the district attorney, through his knowledge of a crime she committed a long time ago."
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"Although this was director Lewis Milestone's only venture into the realm of noir, it remains a classic of the genre. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers stars Barbara Stanwyck as the title character, a tough, spoiled, willful heiress married to the local D.A., Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), a weak-willed alcoholic. When old friend Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) suddenly returns to town after many years away, he approaches Walter to ask his help with the case of Toni Marashek (Lisabeth Scott), a friend who has been falsely accused of a crime. Sam is surprised, at first, to learn of Walter's marriage, knowing both of the parties, but quickly begins to put the pieces together. It turns out that Martha's tyrannical aunt (Judith Anderson), met an untimely end on the night that Sam left town, and Martha fears that Sam will reveal what he knows about that night, thereby destroying the lives of both she and her husband. Consequently, she begins to plot against Sam, who she also loves in her own twisted fashion. Every element seems perfectly in place in this typically guilt-saturated noir, with superb direction from Milestone, a memorable score by Miklos Rosza, and an outstanding performance by Kirk Douglas in his film debut."@en
"A murderous child becomes a wealthy woman with a spineless lawyer husband, the melodrama starts when an ex-boyfriend returns to town."@en
"Martha Ivers a assassiné sa tante pour s'emparer de sa fortune. Walter O'Neil, témoin du crime, en a profité pour l'épouser. Tous deux dominent maintenant une petite ville où."
"The mysterious murder of a rich aunt by a young child haunts the lives of the killer and the witnesses across the years."
"Gripping melodrama about a wife bound to her husband by a crime she committed long ago, and who takes up with her old boyfriend, without bothering to keep the affair from her husband."@en
"Iverstown's lovely but lovelorn heiress lives with her weak-willed husband and the fatal secret they have shared since childhood."
"Martha Ivers is trapped into staying with her weak husband because of a crime she committed long ago."@en
"An unscrupulous woman takes up with her old boyfriend, without bothering to keep the affair from her husband."
"An unscrupulous woman takes up with her old boyfriend, without bothering to keep the affair from her husband."@en
"A woman kills her wealthy aunt in a row over the woman's boyfriend; another man protects the woman from prosecution in return for her agreement to marry him; eighteen years later the boyfriend returns and the woman openly renews her romance with him."@en
"As a child Martha murdered her tyrannical aunt, an act witnessed by her subservient husband and, so they both believe, by her childhood sweetheart."@en
"A woman kills her wealthy aunt in a row over the woman's boyfriend; another man protects the woman from prosecution in return for her agreement to marry him; eighteen years later the boyfriend returns and the woman openly renews her romance with him."
"Classic film noir about a lovelorn heiress and her weak-willed husband who share a fatal secret. This is a descriptive video."
"In the strange love of Martha Ivers (116 min.) the heiress Martha Ivers enters into a secret bargain to marry a man she doesn't love. Eighteen years later the return of her former boyfriend brings hidden secrets and passions to the surface."@en
"A wicked, wealthy woman has complete control of the small town of Iverstown, after inheriting a huge family fortune. Martha and her weak attorney husband share a deep sinister secret - as a young girl she murdered her aunt while preparing to elope with her lover."@en
"A tale of intrigue involving childhood friends and a mysterious death that happened years before. Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the power behind things in the town of Iverston and is married to Walter O'Neill (Kirk Douglas), the district attorney. When their childhood friend Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) returns to town, it brings up powerful memories about their connection to the death of Martha's rich aunt years before and threatens to expose the truth."
"A tale of intrigue involving childhood friends and a mysterious death that happened years before. Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the power behind things in the town of Iverston and is married to Walter O'Neill (Kirk Douglas), the district attorney. When their childhood friend Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) returns to town, it brings up powerful memories about their connection to the death of Martha's rich aunt years before and threatens to expose the truth."@en
"A small-town ice queen/heiress grows suspicious when an old flame appears, so she and her alcoholic district attorney husband hatch a plot to run him out of Iverstown when he gets involved with a case where a man is falsely accused in the untimely death of Martha's aunt years before."