The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

There was nothing lily-white about her -- the clinch-and-kill girl they called: The Blue Gardenia

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Release Date

3/20/1953

Runtime

89 mins

Overview

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A woman wakes to find her date is dead and fears she might be his killer, trapping her in a noir nightmare of fractured memory and mounting dread. It's a claustrophobic psychological whodunit where the real mystery is whether innocence can survive when doubt takes root.

Mood

ParanoidTenseBittersweet

Themes

IdentityBetrayal

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

High-contrastNaturalistic

Structure

Linear

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Sexual violence

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