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Niagara

(1953)

Very like a third-rate Hitchcock, except that the heroine is the brunette, and the blonde is a baddie. Joseph Cotten does his best as the sympathetic murderer, but Max Showalter (billed as Casey Adams, but who cares why?) is, for no clear dramatic reason, cinema's most annoying husband ever.

Shot largely on location, 'cause how else you gonna do the Falls, but the later river locations look suspiciously southern. And the climactic miniature shots are every bit as cheesy as echt Hitch.