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The Blue Gardenia

1953 · 89 min

A tense, shadowy noir that keeps you guessing, with a vulnerable heroine and a cynical press backdrop.

Tagline
There was nothing lily-white about her -- the clinch-and-kill girl they called: The Blue Gardenia
Overview
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • deception
  • isolation
  • memory
  • justice
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour3
Realism7
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
crime, mystery
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Written by
Charles Hoffman
Starring
Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, Richard Erdman, George Reeves, Ruth Storey
Music
Raoul Kraushaar
Cinematography
Nicholas Musuraca
Runtime
89 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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