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The Blue Gardenia

There was nothing lily-white about her -- the clinch-and-kill girl they called: The Blue Gardenia

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.

19531h 29mNRCrime, Mystery

About The Blue Gardenia

Directors
Fritz Lang
Cast
Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, Richard Erdman
Genres
Crime, Mystery
Content rating
NR
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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