In "River of No Return" Otto Preminger uses another dissolve as a foreshadowing device. By this point in the film there has been nothing but animosity between the two leads.
After a brief dip in the rapids, Marilyn Monroe must be relieved of her wet clothes and wrapped in a blanket. Robert Mitchum aids circulation in her calves.
The intimacy of the moment sets something stirring between them. Something hot.
Monroe's come-hither gaze, Mitchum's tender (actually rather claw-like) caress: the flames of passion are fully ignited.
Unmistakably a fire.
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