The Blue Gardenia

Mar 20, 1953

1h 29m

★ 6.5

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.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Blue Gardenia Productions

Warner Bros. Pictures

The Blue Gardenia Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Norah Larkin

Anne Baxter

Casey Mayo

Richard Conte

Crystal Carpenter

Ann Sothern

Harry Prebble

Raymond Burr

Sally Ellis

Jeff Donnell

Richard Erdman

Sam Haynes

George Reeves

Rose Miller

Ruth Storey

Homer

Ray Walker

Nat King Cole

Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)

Fay Baker

Policeman (uncredited)

Robert Bice

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

7.5

Fury

Jun 5, 1936

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

6.8

Human Desire

Aug 5, 1954

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.

0.0

Silver Fish

Jul 11, 2024

Silver Fish is a comedic film noir. It tells the story of detective Timothy and his partner James. (No men were involved in the production of this film).

6.9

I Wake Up Screaming

Oct 31, 1941

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

7.1

Criss Cross

Feb 4, 1949

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

6.6

The Dark Corner

Apr 9, 1946

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

6.8

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sep 24, 1948

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

7.0

Chase a Crooked Shadow

Jan 16, 1958

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

7.0

The Big Combo

Feb 13, 1955

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

7.5

Angels with Dirty Faces

Nov 26, 1938

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

6.8

Brighton Rock

Jan 9, 1948

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

7.6

Elevator to the Gallows

Jan 29, 1958

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

0.0

The Kills

Aug 2, 2024

A belligerent hitwoman navigates a world of cutthroat killers as she attempts to get the money together in order to escape to Mexico and open a bar.

7.9

The Third Man

Aug 31, 1949

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

7.4

Scarface

Apr 9, 1932

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

7.8

Touch of Evil

Mar 30, 1958

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.