The Blue Dahlia

By Karley 2022-10-06 18:17:18

[Film Review] The Blue Dahlia (1946) 6.7/10

This dahlia is “blue”, not “black”, but no less pestilent, noteworthy for being the first script penned by Raymond Chandler, George Marshall's murder mystery casts Alan Ladd as Johnny Morrison, a discharged US Navy aviator, who returns to his homeland in Hollywood, California and only to be hounded as a prime suspect after his disloyal wife Helen (Dowling) is offed by his own...

By Kylie 2022-10-06 17:10:04

Another more creative ending of the original version (canceled by the U.S. Navy review)

At the beginning of the script, Chandler called "Blue Dahlia" the story of Johnny, George, and Buzz-these are the three returning veterans, representing that we often reflect on the second A cross-section of the social class seen in the war films of World War II. These three were "the last survivors of a bombing team that had performed too many missions", and were rehabilitated early due to injuries or heavy pressure. Johnny's eyesight began to decline, George couldn't concentrate, and Buzz...

By Garnett 2023-09-29 01:22:51

The process is good, and the camera performances are very interesting, but the ending is handled too hastily, and there is not much...

By Kathryne 2023-09-13 17:15:27

The characters are a bit thin, and the ending came too...

By Meta 2023-09-11 23:32:22

General works, rubbing against the hot spots of the end of World War II, but the overall performance is full of the satisfied obscenities of American men in the...

By Johnathon 2023-09-11 00:05:11

It's quite satisfactory, I'm sorry to see why I don't have popcorn in my...

By Ressie 2023-08-03 04:35:22

It almost means technically no style The last reversal is not clever enough (softened) (The last reversal of the prosecution witnesses is sonorous and powerful) My favorite line is "Everyone has seen you, but I I found you" (very Hollywood) From the very beginning, every character's foreshadowing can see the traces of the play, I can understand what the screenwriter wants to express, but it's too hard. The man who came back from the battlefield, the Yankee, will also encounter the problem of...