Rating: - One of the essential film noirs
The Blue Dahlia is a quintessential film noir, one of the great films that defined the genre. Army men return from World War II to find their wives drunk and cheating with scumbag jazz club owners. Whether this film has not been released on DVD in the U.S. is quite curious, considering almost every film noir has been burned onto DVD in various collections of the genre. My guess is that Turner owns the film, and hopes to air it only on TCM, or the potentially racist comment in the film has people worried. There were racists in the 1940s, and denying it by not releasing a film is pretty silly.
Rating: - BLUE DAHLIA AND BLUE ME TOO!!
Yes I'm as blue as the Dahlia when i cant get this on DVD even though the last release was 12 years ago! Hey! Wake up! We dont by VHS anymore! Its been DVD for most of us for some 10 years now! Why dont you guys catch up and give us what we want. We would love to buy Veronica Lake movies if they were only available to us!
Rating: - "Blue Dahlia (1946) ... Alan Ladd ... Paramount Pictures Film Noir"
Paramount Pictures present "BLUE DAHLIA" (1946) (100 mins/B&W) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling & Hugh Beaumont --- Directed by George Marshalland released in April 19, 1946, our story line and film, Ex-bomber pilot Johnny Morrison and his buddies George and Buzz (who, with a metal plate in his head, can't stand "monkey music"), return from the war to their home town, Hollywood ... In a rude homecoming, Johnny finds his wife Helen behaving like a tramp with oily nightclub owner Eddie Harwood. His marriage over, ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Los Angeles Oriented Film Noir
Appropriately compared and contrasted to "Double Indemnity" (1944), Raymond Chandler's other great Los Angeles oriented film noir screenplay, "The Blue Dahlia" (1946) shows a part of Los Angeles a bit further down on the socio-economic peeking order. Lower middle class LA is a world of "neighborhood bars and bungalow courts". Post war Los Angeles is not sunny California but a shadowy labyrinth whose denizens are in love with the night. The title character is not a reference to Elizabeth Short, who would have seen the film from which she picked up her "Black Dahlia" nickname, but a low-grade nightclub ... Read More
Rating: - A Reel Picture of 40's Los Angeles: A Historical Gem.
The Blue Dahlia is on my top ten list of greatest American films ever made. The superb cast is so close in age and demographic to the tenor of the times that every line written by Chandler is delivered with an almost exacting reality of both mythical movie America and the very real horror of men dealing with postwar paranoia in the real world. The villains are ugly sleazy men who run the city of L.A. and were draft dodgers for whom WWII was nonexistent. In this Noir landscape they stumble around an L.A.
that to this day if you drive around at 2a.m.you might still see the ghosts of Johnny and ... Read More
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