Laura (1955 film)

A Portrait of Murder is a 1955 American TV film for The 20th Century-Fox Hour. It was a remake of Laura.^[1]

It was adapted by Mel Dinelli, produced by Otto Lang and directed by John Brahm.^[2]

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."^[3]

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".^[4]

Plot summary

Cast

George Sanders as Waldo Lydecker
Dana Wynter as Laura Hunt
Robert Stack as Mark McPherson
Scott Forbes as Shelby Carpenter
Johnny Washbrook as Danny Morgan
Gloria Clark as Bessie Clary
Gordon Wynn as MacAvity
Robert B. Williams as Fred Callahan
Harry Carter as Policeman

References

^ LAURA Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 23, Iss. 264, (Jan 1, 1956): 48.
^ Nixon Speech, Boxing Bout on Tonight W A. Los Angeles Times 19 Oct 1955: 32.
^ Stack, Robert; Evans, Mark (1980). Straight shooting. Macmillan. p. 265.
^ Stack p 265

External links

Laura at BFI
Laura at IMDb

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[1] LAURA Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 23, Iss. 264, (Jan 1, 1956): 48.

[2] Nixon Speech, Boxing Bout on Tonight W A. Los Angeles Times 19 Oct 1955: 32.

[3] Stack, Robert; Evans, Mark (1980). Straight shooting. Macmillan. p. 265.

[4] Stack p 265

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