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Released
1953 · FILM

Niagara

A newlywed bride’s suspicion that her fellow couple’s volatile marriage hides a deadly secret forces her to confront murderous jealousy before it destroys them both.

“A raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!”

Directed by
Henry Hathaway
Written by
Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch
Runtime
92 min
DramaFilm-NoirThriller
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Rose Loomis and her older, more somber husband, George, are spending time at a cabin in Niagara Falls, New York. During their stay, they meet Polly and Ray Cutler, a couple on their honeymoon. Polly becomes uneasy about the dynamic between Rose and George, and her concerns intensify when she witnesses Rose in the embrace of another man. Although Ray initially dismisses Polly's concerns as exaggerated, the relationship between George and Rose soon takes a disturbing and unexpected turn.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Barbara McleanShot by Joseph MacdonaldScored by Sol Kaplan

Box Office

1953 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.5M

Budget$1.3M
Worldwide gross$8.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Niágaraes

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