This demented relationship drama by John M Stahl, starring the golden era actress Gene Tierney, is the original Fatal Attraction but better, deeper and darker.

Leave Her to Heaven is a well-done picture and rates as good screen entertainment.

Director Stahl has certainly made the most out of the book and done well directing the young players.

Oft-befuddled critic Bosley Crowther called the film ‘a piece of cheap fiction done up in Technicolor and expensive sets,’ as if that isn’t what’s so awesome about it.