If you saw someone on the subway reading a book with this title you wouldn’t exactly be overawed but this cinematic melodrama has Lizbeth Scott and Barbara Stanwyck and really deserved a better title. It is wonderful.

THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS

Lewis Milestone

1946

Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson

Screenplay by Robert Rossen; adapted from the story Love Lies Bleeding by John Patrick

Title: THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS

Year: 1946

Director: Lewis Milestone

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson

Writing: Screenplay by Robert Rossen; adapted from the story Love Lies Bleeding by John Patrick

Genre tags: DRAMA