The Blue Dahlia
Double dame trouble! Double-barrelled action!
Genres
Overview
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$2750000
Runtime
96 min
Release Date
1946-04-16
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
156
Vote Average
6.7
Alan Ladd
Johnny Morrison
Veronica Lake
Joyce Harwood
William Bendix
Buzz Wanchek
Howard Da Silva
Eddie Harwood
Doris Dowling
Helen Morrison
Tom Powers
Capt. Hendrickson
Hugh Beaumont
George Copeland
Howard Freeman
Corelli
Don Costello
Leo
Will Wright
"Dad" Newell
Frank Faylen
Man Recommending Motel
Walter Sande
Heath
Bea Allen
News Clerk (uncredited)
Harry Barris
Belhop (uncredited)
George Barton
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Mary Bayless
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Nina Borget
Waitress (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
George Bruggeman
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Mae Busch
Jenny (Maid) (uncredited)
George M. Carleton
DeAnza Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Douglas Carter
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Anthony Caruso
Marine Corporal Playing Jukebox (uncredited)
Carmen Clifford
Party Guest (uncredited)
Jack Rube Clifford
Plainclothes Cop (uncredited)
Tom Dillon
Cop in Prowl Car (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee
Gangster Car Driver (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Clark Eggleston
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Brooke Evans
Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Coctail Party Guest (uncredited)
Charles Fogel
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jack Gargan
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Joe Gilbert
Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
Paul Gustine
Doorman (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
Soldier Picking Up Suitcase in Bus Station (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Mr. Hughes (Assistant Hotel Manager) (uncredited)
Charles Anthony Hughes
Detective Lt. Lloyd (uncredited)
Jerry James
Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
Stan Johnson
Naval Officer (uncredited)
Roberta Jonay
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Lucy Knoch
Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
Audrey Korn
Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
Perc Launders
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
"Wolf" at Bar (uncredited)
Leon Lombardo
Bellhop (uncredited)
John Marlin
Doorman (uncredited)
Vera Marshe
Party Guest (uncredited)
Charles Mayon
Party Guest (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Bartender at Gus' (uncredited)
William Meader
Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
James Millican
Photographer (uncredited)
Mavis Murray
Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)
Noel Neill
Nolie (Hatcheck Girl) (uncredited)
William J. O'Brien
Man at Cavendish Apartments (uncredited)
Franklin Parker
Police Stenographer (uncredited)
Ed Randolph
Cop in George's Apartment (uncredited)
Ricky Ricardi
Man (uncredited)
Albert Ruiz
Photographer (uncredited)
George Sorel
Paul (Captain of Waiters) (uncredited)
Beverly Thompson
Party Guest (uncredited)
Harry Tyler
Bus Station Clerk (uncredited)
Henry Vroom
Master Sergeant (uncredited)
Audrey Westphal
Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
Gloria Williams
Assistant Maid (uncredited)
Dick Winslow
Dick (Piano Player at Party) (uncredited)
Lawrence Young
Clerk (uncredited)
6.1
Murder at 1600
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
1997-04-18 | en
6.6
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
1982-05-21 | en
6.4
Devil in a Blue Dress
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
1995-09-29 | en
10.0
Moonlight Valley
Joe's search for his girlfriend leads him through a series of unexpected encounters.
2024-06-11 | en
6.2
Cry Terror!
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
1958-05-02 | en
6.3
Killer's Kiss
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
1955-10-01 | en
8.0
Fairview St.
Paroled after serving four years in prison for armed robbery, James Winton returns home to his wife and father to make amends. However, when James is implicated in the recent murders of old acquaintances, the police detective who put him away last time is determined to make him pay at any cost.
2010-02-18 | en
7.3
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
1989-10-13 | en
6.9
Alphaville
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”
1965-05-05 | fr
6.2
Femme Fatale
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
2002-04-30 | en
6.6
Mississippi Mermaid
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.
1969-06-18 | fr
6.6
Young and Innocent
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
1937-11-01 | en
7.4
Pierrot le Fou
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
1965-11-05 | fr
0.0
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Set in New Jersey in 1938, "Drop Dead, Gorgeous" follows the stories of high-society woman Irene Moretti and private investigator Miles Marshall. After Irene's husband, mob boss Luca Moretti, is murdered, Irene hires Marshall to help her flee the country. Meanwhile, her husband's mob connections double-hire Marshall to track down the killer, creating problems for themselves, Irene, and ultimately for Marshall himself. This twenty-minute short film takes inspiration from the classic noir tradition.
2017-02-14 | en
0.0
Boca do Inferno
A shy Portuguese poet and an exuberant English occultist meet up in Lisbon in 1930. When the last one disappears, an English detective begins a thorough investigation: was it a suicide, as reported. Or a homicide? This is the real story of the brief meeting between Fernando Pessoa, Aleister Crowley, and Hanni Larissa Jaeger.
2019-07-10 | pt
7.9
The Night of the Hunter
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
1955-07-27 | en
6.2
Double Impact
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
1991-07-31 | en
9.0
Amish Affair
Hannah moves in with a charismatic Amish leader, Aaron, to help with his ailing wife. Seeking refuge after leaving her Amish community, Hannah is grateful to Aaron and his wife for opening their home to her and giving her work but as she tends to her household chores, the spark between her and Aaron is undeniable. Hannah knows their secret relationship has them both living in sin, so she decides to end it but when Aaron’s wife suspiciously dies, she finds herself framed for murder and fighting to prove her innocence.
2024-07-06 | en
6.8
Con Air
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
1997-06-05 | en
7.2
Murder, My Sweet
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
1944-12-14 | en