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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American film noir drama directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott. Kirk Douglas appears in his film debut.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas. A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
- Lewis Milestone
- 1946-09-13
Buy The Strange Love of Martha Ivers on Fandango at Home. Young Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) inadvertently causes the death of her cruel, authoritarian aunt. Martha lies to the cops, and...
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- Barbara Stanwyck
- Lewis Milestone
- Drama
Jul 23, 2021 · When Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) returns to the neighborhood of his youth, he finds that his old friend Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) has married local District Attorney...
- 116 min
- 18.9K
- Fandor
In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson (Van Heflin), and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to "good boy" Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), now a District Attorney.
Synopsis. In 1928, young Martha Ivers is returned by the police to Iverstown, Pennsylvania after running away for the fourth time to escape the tyranny of her aunt. When her aunt insults her dead father, then attacks her pet cat with a cane, the child kills her aunt with the cane.
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will.
