Another hidden treasure! But of course, being directed by Fritz Lang it's going to be pretty superb. Based (very roughly) around the Black Dahlia case, we have Anne Baxter as Norah,(who keeps astounding me with her brilliant performances), who decides to go out for a night of drinking to celebrate her birthday after she receives a letter from her boyfriend telling her he has found someone else. She meets up with womaniser Harry Prebble who takes her back to his apartment. The next morning she is accused of his murder having no recollection of doing anything wrong. A newspaper man gets interested in the case and tries to get 'The Blue Gardenia' as she is now known to come to him before giving herself up to the police.
The film is excellently put together, always interesting and always captivating, with Nat King Cole as a special guest who sings the title song. Ann Sothern is also on top form as her housemate Crystal.
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