Cinema: Also Showing

Niagara (20th Century-Fox) is a thin trickle of melodrama with a Niagara Falls setting. The picture casts Marilyn Mon roe as a curvaceous tramp who plots to murder her husband (Joseph Gotten).

When the plan backfires, Marilyn and her lover (Richard Allan) wind up dead at the hands of the husband, who takes his punishment by going over the falls in a drifting boat.

A cut & dried thriller, Niagara allows Marilyn Monroe to parade about in revealing negligees and to take a shower in silhouette. But this is just about the full range of...

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