Laura (1955)
- Directed by
- John Brahm
How it feels
A detective investigates the murder of a beautiful woman named Laura. He becomes obsessed with her life and the people around her as he pieces together what happened.
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What happens
"A Portrait of Murder" is a 1955 episode of the TV series The 20th Century-Fox Hour. It was a remake of Laura. It was adapted by Mel Dinelli, produced by Otto Lang and directed by John Brahm. Stack was assigned to star as he was under contract to Fox. He said Brahm "who had not asked for the idiotic assignment, got so tangled up in the cameras and the seven day schedule it took us fourteen days to shoot it." When The 20th Century-Fox Hour was syndicated to local stations as Hour of Stars, the title of this episode reverted to the original film and novel title, Laura. Sanders and Stack reprised their roles in a 1968 TV film version which Stack called "an even worse version of the poor defenseless film". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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