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LAURA (1944)

Vincent Price pays the price of police brutality in LAURA: And the audience is behind Dana Andrews, about to let us in on who killed LAURA... or, you know, that other woman... And the following year, Vincent Price would love Gene Tierney again in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN co-starring Dana's beautiful multi-collaborator, Jeanne Crain with Cornel Wilde in his place...
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