The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The story follows Martha Ivers as she attempts to escape her wealthy aunt, accidentally kills her during a power outage, and is blackmailed into marrying her tutors son to cover it up, but years later the truth is revealed when her childhood friend returns to town and Walter tries to kill him. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American English-language Drama Film-Noir film featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen and Max Wagner. The movie is inspired from Love Lies Bleeding by John Patrick. Hal Wallis Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Hal B. Wallis. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is written by Robert Rossen and Robert Riskin and it is directed by Lewis Milestone, Byron Haskin and Hal B. Wallis. Paramount Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers was released on 19th August 1946 and takes a screen time of 116 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The movie made a box office gross of $3 million. Cinematography was done by Victor Milner and editing by Archie Marshek. The music was composed by Mikl S R Zsa.