The Blue Gardenia (1953)
- Directed by
- Fritz Lang
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 101 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A telephone operator goes on a date with a charming man and wakes up the next morning with a hangover and no memory of the night before. After a brutal murder is reported, she begins to fear that she was the killer.
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What happens
The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 American film noir starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, and Ann Sothern. Directed by Fritz Lang from a screenplay by Charles Hoffman, it is based on the novella The Gardenia by Vera Caspary. An independent production distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, The Blue Gardenia – a cynical take on press coverage of a sensational murder case similar to the real-life Black Dahlia killing – was the first installment of Lang's "newspaper noir" film trio, being followed in 1956 by While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. The song "Blue Gardenia", performed in the film by Nat King Cole, was written by Bob Russell and Lester Lee and arranged by Nelson Riddle. The director of cinematography for The Blue Gardenia was RKO regular Nicholas Musuraca, then working at Warner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Jennifer (1953)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.