''Laura'' is a 1955 American TV film for ''
The 20th Century-Fox Hour''. It was a remake of the
1944 film of the same name.
It was adapted by
Mel Dinelli
Amelio "Mel" Dinelli (6 October 1912, Albuquerque, New Mexico – 28 November 1991, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer for theatre, radio, film and magazines, usually in the suspense genre. He grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an ...
, produced by
Otto Lang
:''see also Otto Lang (film producer) and Otto Lang (actor)''
Otto Emil Lang, (born May 14, 1932) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician.
Life and career
Lang was born in Handel, Saskatchewan. In 1961, he was appointed Dean of Law at the ...
and directed by
John Brahm.
Stack was assigned to star as he was under contract to Fox. He said Brahm "who had not asked for the idiotic assignment, got so tangled up in the cameras and the seven day schedule it took us fourteen days to shoot it."
Sanders and Stack reprised their roles in a
1968 TV film version which Stack called "an even worse version of the poor defenseless film".
[Stack p 265]
Cast
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George Sanders as Waldo Lydecker
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Dana Wynter as Laura Hunt
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Robert Stack as Mark McPherson
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Scott Forbes as Shelby Carpenter
*Johnny Washbrook as Danny Morgan
*Gloria Clark as Bessie Clary
*Gordon Wynn as MacAvity
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Robert B. Williams as Fred Callahan
*Harry Carter as Policeman
References
External links
''Laura''at BFI
''Laura''at
IMDb
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1955 television films
1955 films
American television films
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