1020 Leave Her to Heaven

[pistolwink]

Two things about this film: (1) the overripe, autumnal cinematography might be the most beautiful I've ever seen; (2) my mom attests to the novel on which this was based being very popular and a bit scandalous, even by the early 1950s. She remembers a neighbor sneaking the book out on their summer vacation and reading passages out loud to the other girls, and then all of them getting in trouble when a parent found out.

[Criterion Nitrile]

(1) the overripe, autumnal cinematography might be the most beautiful I've ever seen

If only the film's original Technicolor negatives had survived... what those first-run nitrate prints must have looked like...