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The Blue Gardenia / Warner Bros. Pictures ; Blue Gardenia Production, Inc. ; screenplay by Charles Hoffman ; story by Vera Caspary ; produced by Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Fritz Lang.
LIBRA DVD 012 056
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987--Film adaptations.
- Caspary, Vera.
- Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987.
- Women murderers.
- Sensationalism in journalism.
- Sensationalism in journalism--Drama.
- Women murderers--Drama.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Film noir.
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2000]
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby Digital; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "Norah Larkin (Baxter) is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble (Burr). Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist (Conte), Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her into such a notorious public figure."--Container.
- Participant:
- Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, Richard Erdman, George Reeves, Ruth Storey, Ray Walker, Nat 'King' Cole.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Nicholas Musuraca; editor, Edward Mann; music, Raoul Kraushaar.
- Notes:
- Based on a story by Vera Caspary.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
- "Title song 'Blue Gardenia' written by Bob Russell & Lester Lee, performed by Nat King Cole."--Container.
- OCLC:
- 148110986
- Publisher Number:
- 014381904222
- ID9042AQDVD Image Entertainment
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