A classic noirish mystery with a consummate ensemble of actors. Dana Andrews adroitly plays the detective who delves into the murder of the stunningly beautiful Laura, with whom it seems everyone, including the detective himself, is in love. But Webb steals the show as the titular ingenue's creepily elegant social mentor, Waldo Lydecker. Based on the novel by Vera Caspary. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director. Academy Awards: Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography.

Classic film about a detective who, while investigating the murder of a beautiful woman, falls in love with her likeness in a painting. But was the woman really murdered?

LAURA was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999.

Additional cast: Clyde Fillmore (Bullitt); Ralph Dunn (Fred Callahan); Lee Tung Foo (Servant); and Harold Schlickenmayer, Harry Strang and Lane Chandler (Detectives).

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English, Spanish
Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Alternate Ending
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Audio Commentary:
1. David Raskin - Composer & Janine Basinger - Wesleyan University Film Professor
2. Rudy Behlmer - Film Historian
Documentary:
1. GENE TIERNEY: A SHATTERED PORTRAIT
2. VINCENT PRICE: THE VERSATILE VILLAIN

Gene Tierney: American actress, LAURA
Dana Andrews: American Actor
Clifton Webb: American Actor
Vincent Price: American actor, author
Judith Anderson: Australian actress, REBECCA
James Flavin: American supporting actor, KING KONG (1933)
Clyde Fillmore: 
Ralph Dunn: 
Grant Mitchell: American Actor
Kathleen Howard: Actress/Singer
Dutch Schlickenmeyer: 
Harry Strang: 
Lane Chandler: American Actor/1930s-50s
Frank La Rue: 

Otto Preminger: Director/Producer/Actor

Otto Preminger: Director/Producer/Actor

Jay Dratler: Screenwriter
Elizabeth Reinhardt: 
Samuel Hoffenstein: 
Ring Lardner: American screenwriter, WOMAN OF THE YEAR/M.A.S.H.
Jerry Cady: Screenwriter

David Raksin: Composer, late '30s-late '80s, FOREVER AMBER (1947)

Louis Loeffler: 

"...That LAURA continues to weave a spell -- and it does -- is a tribute to style over sanity....The music lends a haunted, nostalgic, regretful cast to everything it plays under..."
...This all-timer made a standard of the title tune, launched co-star Clifton Webb's screen career....[and] it also gives Vincent Price and Judith Anderson meaty suspect roles..."
"[T]he whodunit still gleams like a pearl-handled pistol..."
"[A] delectable romantic thriller..."
"Preminger's waspish masterpiece, which swings from high society noir to romantic mystery two thirds of the way through."