Laura

Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the murder of successful advertising executive Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), who was killed by a shotgun blast to the face just inside her apartment doorway. He first interviews worldly newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), an imperious, effete older man who explains how he met Laura and became her mentor. Mark also questions Laura's parasitic playboy fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), and her loyal housekeeper, Bessie Clary (Dorothy Adams). Through the testimony of Laura's friends and reading her letters and diary, Mark becomes obsessed with her, leading him to discover a shocking truth about Waldo Lydecker.