Laura

Laura

Genre: Film Noir/Mystery

Directed By: Otto Preminger

Debut Year: 1944

Brief Synopsis: In one of the most celebrated 1940s film noirs, Manhattan detective Mark McPherson investigates the murder of Madison Avenue executive Laura Hunt in her fashionable apartment. On the trail of her murderer, McPherson quizzes Laura's arrogant best friend, gossip columnist Waldo Lydecker and her comparatively mild fiancé, Shelby Carpenter. As the detective grows obsessed with the case, he finds himself falling in love with the dead woman.