Retrospektive 2012
The Blue Gardenia
Fritz Lang
USA 1952, 1953
90 min
V'12
Based on a story by Vera Caspary, THE BLUE GARDENIA is a late thriller in the film noir style and the first of Lang's "newspaper noir" movie trio. With WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, THE BLUE GARDENIA criticizes newspaper coverage of a sensational murder case. The film involves the viewer in its storytelling, and sweeps one along.
Credits
- Raymond Burr
- Richard Erdman
- Celia Lovsky
- George Reeves
- Frank Ferguson
- Anne Baxter
- Richard Conte
- Ann Sothern
- Jeff Donnell
- Ruth Storey
- Ray Walker
- Nat King Cole
- Alex Gottlieb
- Fay Baker
- Charles Hoffman
- nach der Novelle «The Gardenia» von Vera Caspary
- Nicholas Musuraca
- Ben Winkler
- Edward Mann
- Raoul Kraushaar
- Lied «Blue Gardenia» von Bob Russell
- Lester Lee
- Daniel Hall
- Maria P. Donovan
- Izzy Berne
- Alex Gottlieb
Blue Gardenia Productions/Gloria Films, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
35 mm
bw