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Anne Baxter,
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Fritz Lang,
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: Not Rated
: Image Entertainment
: Drama, Film Noir, Crime
: 88 min.
: English
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After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on her, she hits him with a poker. Unfortunately, Prebble is found dead the next morning, and Norah, not even remembering how she got home, thinks that she killed him. Meanwhile, newspaperman Casey Mayo (Richard Conte), looking for an angle, invites the "Blue Gardenia Murderess" to turn herself in to him. The high point of the film is the interplay between the vulnerable Baxter and Burr at his smarmiest. ~ Steve Press, All Movie Guide
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| Excellent Noir
by eifert
October 8, 2004 - 5:52 PM PDT
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3 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| Blue Gardenia is an excellent noir. The plot is simple buy involving - a single woman wakes up to find that she may have killed her blind date. The cast is top notch, especially for noir heads. Raymond Burr is at his slimy best playing the womanizing playboy. Richard Conte plays a reporter who'll get his story - no matter what. It's interesting to see that the media hasn't changed much from the fifties. Not to be forgotten is Nat King Cole's theme song that ties the movie together cleverly and unexpectedly. It's noir that's very entertaining and involving. Keep a sharp eye out for TV's Superman George Reeves. |
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