BLUE GARDENIA (DVD) B/M DVD

The Blue Gardenia
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

Cast Anne Baxter as Norah Larkin Richard Conte as Casey Mayo Ann Sothern as Crystal Carpenter Raymond Burr as Harry Prebble Jeff Donnell as Sally Ellis Richard Erdman as Al Nat "King" Cole as Himself George Reeves as Police Capt. Haynes Ruth Storey as Rose Miller Ray Walker as Homer

Crew Daniel Hall - Art Director Maria P. Donovan - Costume Designer Emmett Emerson - First Assistant Director Fritz Lang - Director Edward Mann - Editor Raoul Kraushaar - Composer (Music Score) Bob Russell - Songwriter Lester Lee - Songwriter Gene Hibbs - Makeup James Barker - Makeup Nick Musuraca - Cinematographer Alex Gottlieb - Producer Willis Cook - Special Effects Ben Winkler - Sound/Sound Designer Charles Hoffman - Screenwriter Vera Caspary - Short Story Author

The Blue Gardenia
The Blue Gardenia contains one of the purest examples of Fritz Lang's ability to transform commonplace pieces of household technology (such as clocks and telephones) into engines of destiny. Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter), at a moment of weakness (she's just read a letter from her boyfriend breaking off their relationship), answers a phone call meant for someone else and finds herself on a blind date with Raymond Burr's sleazy Harry Prebble, who ends up dead at the end of the night. In interviews, Lang often dismissed this film as a job-for-hire, but its recurring image of the telephone as a sinister conduit of possibly fatal information (and misinformation) remains intriguing. Decked out in a wonderfully tacky 1950s milieu featuring a tiki bar with Nat "King" Cole on the bandstand, The Blue Gardenia subtly questions that decade's mass-produced cultural blandness by exposing the dark side that's never very far below the surface, at least in Lang's films. ~ Tom Vick, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: Sound Processing: 1: PCM mono 5.1: 5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects Additional Features: DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard MPAA Rating: NR DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 88 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 0. Chapter Selection 1. Main Title; Granite 1466 [4:48] 2. Happy Birthday [10:11] 3. Diving for Pearls [4:23] 4. Blue Gardenia [2:41] 5. One Too Many [9:23] 6. The Morning After [3:13] 7. On the Case [6:37] 8. A Guilty Conscience [6:27] 9. "Letter to an Unknown Murderess" [11:01] 10. Killer Amnesia [14:37] 11. Foul Play [6:07] 12. A Woman Scorned [8:40]