Niagara (1953) review

Newlyweds Ray (Max Showalter) and Polly (Jean Peters) go to the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls and meet troubled couple Rose (Marilyn Monroe) and George (Joseph Cotten) - he's a Korean War vet who's been struggling with mental illness (he was allegedly hospitalized) while she's openly engaging in an affair with another man (Richard Allan) and plans on killing George.  The "jealous husband"/"taunting wife" dynamic is as tedious to watch on the big screen as it is in real life, and the "twists" are improperly handled: in an interview, screenwriter Walter Reisch said he believed up to six major sequences were missing, which might account for why the second half of the movie is so uneven.  With it being shot on location (and in Technicolor) it looks gorgeous - I think everyone should take a ride on the Maid of the Mist if they have the opportunity - but it's really just a failed Hitchcock project.