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Blue Gardenia, The (1953) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Blue Gardenia, The (1953) a score of 2.8654 out of 4

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Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

Made the same year as The Big Heat, Fritz Lang's lesser-known The Blue Gardenia plays just as well. Anne Baxter plays a telephone operator whose boyfriend is off fighting the Korean War. When she finds out that he's dumped her for someone nearer to him,...read the complete Blue Gardenia, The (1953) review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

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DVDBeaver

Thought by many as the film that defined the end of the film-noir genre, Fritz Lang's "The Blue Gardenia" has Anne Baxter as a working girl who believes she has murdered a masher (Raymond Burr). The film contains adept elements of a mild thriller and has...read the complete Blue Gardenia, The (1953) review at DVDBeaver

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The Context

This bizarrely under-rated film noir is as gripping a film as The Big Heat, and it opens with superb power as a woman's humiliation by her boyfriend propels her to an indiscretion which ends in attempted rape and murder in self-defence. The film's true...read the complete Blue Gardenia, The (1953) review at The Context