The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Fate drew them together… and only murder could part them!
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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  7EGK8
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  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: December 8, 2020
  • Originally Released: 1946
  • Label: Digicomtv

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User Ratings: 1,745
Pervaded by his guilty-liberal fascination with power and money. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: B -- An engrossing film noir. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 5, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- Buscando ecoar o infinitamente superior Pacto de Sangue (também com Stanwyck), o filme desperta interesse por sua moral ambígua, mas se enfraquece em função do final implausível. Mas Douglas impressiona já em sua estréia.
Cinema em Cena
Apr 5, 2006
Rating: 4.5/5 -- One of the most effective and underrated noirs of that classic era. Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Jun 2, 2010
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is one of those really dark films noir that tends to get away with more than it seems to be getting away with. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jul 2, 2012
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Vintage thriller that too often veers more toward mopey melodrama than sizzling film noir. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Jun 19, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- A forgotten classic with great stars, get reminded...
Hollywood.com
Oct 15, 2005

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American film noir drama starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and features Kirk Douglas in his first film debut. In 1928 in a Pennsylvania town named Iverstown a thirteen-year-old girl Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to run away from her domineering guardian aunt, Mrs. Ivers (Judith Anderson). Martha is retrieved and brought home to be scolded by her aunt as Martha proclaims her surname is not Ivers, but Smith after her father's name. Sam Masterson (Darryl Hickman) is a small child also under the control of Mrs. Ivers. During a power failure Sam comes for Martha, but Martha's aunt hears her calling to him from downstairs. Mrs. Ivers begins to beat Martha's kitten with her cane, but Martha wrestles the cane away and strikes Mrs. Ivers across the head with an iron poker, causing her to die. When the power comes back on Martha lies about the incident, and Sam backs her up. Seventeen years later Walter Jr. (Kirk Douglas) is now Iverstown's district attorney and is married to Martha who has used her inheritance to expand the Ivers milling empire. Their marriage in one-sided as Walter knows he loves Martha, but Martha does not love him. Sam (Van Heflin), now grown up, drives into town and goes to look at his old home, now a boarding house. While waiting for a car repair he meets Antonia (Lizabeth Scott) who gets arrested for a probation violation. Sam asks Walter to use his influence to get Antonio released from jail. When Martha.sees Sam again, Walter becomes jealous and the plot thickens as the story takes form. The ending of this story will both surprise and stun you. This is a classic tale of the paths life takes us down -- for better or for worse.

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