Review of Leave Her to Heaven (1945) by Ld P — 21 Sep 2009

Leave Her to Heaven (1945) This was 20th centry Fox's highest grossing film of the 1940s. Its a beautifully filmed piece. Technicolor Masterpiece. A young novelist, Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), who meets beautiful Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) on a train. They fall in love and are married. Harland soon finds his life blighted when tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him. Gradually, he realizes that his wife's insane jealousy, which turns her own family away from her, may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.

Love drives a woman crazy the fem fatal causes her own miscarriage, she watches her husbands brother drowned , she poisons herself to implicate her sister. Does any woman kill herself for her man?? only if she insanely selfish and jealous. The title is a quote from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In Act I, Scene V, the Ghost urges Hamlet not to seek vengeance against Queen Gertrude, but rather to "leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to p/r/i/c/k and sting her." this is a great psychological drama about mental illness. this is really an excellent movie Gene Tierney is utterly convincing in her role five stars highest recommendation.