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
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