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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381904222
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
MPN: 9042
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 11, 2000
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 1953
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Product Description:
Fritz Lang's scathing critique of fifties America's hunger for bloodshed and scandal. Classic Hollywood film noir with a feminine twist "The Blue Gardenia" stars Anne Baxter (All About Eve) as Norah Larkin a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr). Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist (Richard Conte) Norah dodges dragnets informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble and to remember the details of her ill fated night. As her hopes for justice fade she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her into such a notorious public figure. Enhancing the melancholy mood of the film is the haunting theme song arranged by Nelson Riddle and performed to perfection by Nat "King" Cole.System Requirements:Running Time 88 MinFormat: DVD VIDEO Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 014381904222 Manufacturer No: ID9042AQDVD
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With its title inspired by the notorious Black Dahlia murder case, The Blue Gardenia throws a twist into the story by making the mystery woman not the victim but the suspect in a lurid murder case. Anne Baxter, playing a virginal blonde with almost breathless innocence, impulsively accepts a blind date after receiving a "Dear Jane" letter from her boyfriend in Korea. Raymond Burr oozes slime as the lothario who plots his seduction with cynical calculation ("For drinks, Polynesian Pearl Divers, and don't spare the rum!") and the naive Baxter is easy prey, until she fights back against his advances with a fireplace poker and stumbles home. Waking up the next morning with the past evening a veritable blank, she discovers herself the prime suspect in a murder case trumpeted into a sensationalistic headline story by calculating columnist Richard Conte. Fritz Lang transforms the rather conventional low-budget thriller into a paranoid nightmare, his cheap sets and flat backdrops creating a tawdry world peopled by cynics and opportunists preying on the guileless, and Baxter makes every guilt-ridden moment palpable. Like in many film noir thrillers, the pat conclusion seems wholly arbitrary, the product of the Hollywood happy-ending machine. However, Lang's film isn't about the mystery, but the experience of an innocent whose single, desperate transgression turns her world upside down. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  -
Raymond Burr's Harry Prebble is an artist with an eye for the ladies. He calls up sarcastic Crystal (Ann Sothern), a switchboard operator that he's just met, but her friend and roommate Norah (Anne Baxter), depressed and lonely after receiving a "dear Jane" letter from her boyfriend in Korea, accepts his invitation. After a woozy, drunken evening she somehow makes it home, waking up the next morning to find Prebble has been killed. Did she do it? Will she turn herself in? Will ace newspaper columnist ... Read More
Rating:  -
The DVD transfer is second rate. Some of the scenes appear washed out and much of the grey detail has been muddled over. This film would rate higher if someone had worked to restore the picture before putting it on DVD.
This movie, marketed as film noir, falls far short of the mark. Yes, there is a murder and there is a mystery but the plot and screenplay keep the veiwer rather bored. The best view of "The Blue Gardenia" is that it is also a woman's picture with Anne Baxter as the disillusioned ... Read More
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The Blue Gardenia is a really good film noir/murder drama with Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) being unable to remember if she killed Harry Prebble(Raymond Burr). She cant recall if she did - but all the clues point to her direction as if she did.
Richard Conte is the newspaper journalist and George Reeves is a Police Captain in this and both are great in their roles as well. Directed by Fritz Lang who gave us M , Metropolis and other outstanding films.
Easily recommended to fans of Noir, Lang, Baxter, ... Read More
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I thought "The Blue Gardenia" was a great movie. I loved the acting. I loved the music. I loved the atmosphere. Anne Baxter is a personal favorite. She never disappoints.
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Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia is not just a minor noir, it's a minor film. The story is so simple and linear, and the final revelation so ordinary, that it's difficult to get much involved. Except...and that's because Lang has put together the movie so professionally and with such craftsman-like assurance that it's difficult not to stick with it. The Blue Gardenia keeps moving and we keep watching.
Norah Larkin (Ann Baxter) is a telephone switchboard operator at West-Coast Telephone Company in Los ... Read More
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