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.
Direction
Lang's last American noir—pure visual paranoia.
Cinematography
Natalka Barbakadze makes color feel dangerously monochrome.
Acting
Anne Baxter's breakdown scene should be illegal.
Director
Fritz Lang
Anne Baxter
Norah Larkin
Richard Conte
Casey Mayo
Ann Sothern
Crystal Carpenter
Raymond Burr
Harry Prebble
Jeff Donnell
Sally Ellis
Richard Erdman
Al
George Reeves
Sam Haynes
Ray Walker
Homer
Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole
Fay Baker
Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)
Robert Bice
Policeman (uncredited)
Larry J. Blake
Music Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Lela Bliss
Miss Stanley (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Policewoman (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lang hated this film, calling it his worst—yet it's his only color noir, and arguably his most visually experimental.
The 'Blue Gardenia' as pop song tie-in was studio-mandated product placement, making this a stealth musical—noir's commodification eating itself.
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