If ever a film poster could be said to have created a star's image, it was the one for this movie - Marilyn Monroe draped across said falls with a certain look in her eye and a come-on caption to match her décolletage: "A raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!". Monroe, top-billed for the first time in her career, is a sensation in this atmospheric thriller, clad provocatively in a figure-hugging red dress. She plays the faithless wife of Joseph Cotten who plots his murder at the honeymoon resort of Niagara Falls. Director Henry Hathaway clearly knew what he had in front of his lens, with the 20th Century-Fox Technicolor seldom better deployed. The film itself verges on melodrama, daft and clever by turns, with a fine performance from Cotten and some interesting location shots of the falls, but this is Monroe's star-making movie and, boy, does she know it.