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The Blue Dahlia

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Time Out says

Ladd's returning war veteran stalks stoically down those mean streets once more in search of the killer of his wife (Dowling), a faithless floozie undeserving of his concern. Raymond Chandler's script never quite recovers from the Navy Department's objection to having Ladd's war-wounded buddy Bendix, wandering around with a steel plate in his head and intermittent amnesia, turn out to have done the killing (out of outraged loyalty to his friend, then blanking it out in his memory). The plot rewrite involves one or two arbitrary connections and a much less satisfactory conclusion. A fine hardboiled thriller for all that, with excellent dialogue and performances, and much more apt direction from Marshall than one might expect.
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Release Details

  • Duration:98 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:George Marshall
  • Screenwriter:Raymond Chandler
  • Cast:
    • Howard da Silva
    • Doris Dowling
    • Alan Ladd
    • Hugh Beaumont
    • William Bendix
    • Veronica Lake
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