Since our establishment in 1999, we've proudly provided a DVD rentals by mail service, featuring a carefully curated library of around 60,000 titles. Our diverse range, covering both classic and modern films along with TV series, has reached customers all over the U.S. We're thrilled to launch a new version of CAFEDVD on Septermber 29 2023 to expand our service and offering.    
Home     |     Cart     |     My Account     |     My Wish List     |     Help      
 

  Search
 
 
 
  Genres:
Action Music
Animation Romance
Classic Sci-Fi
Comedy Sports
Cult Suspense
Documentary Special Int
Drama Television
Family Thriller
Foreign War
Horror Western
Independent PG-13,PG,G
 
  1001 Movies You Must
   See Before You Die
  Most Requested
  Directors
  New Releases
  Popular Independent
  Criterion Collection
  All Time Favorites
  AFI 100
  Staff Recommended A-M
  Staff Recommended N-Z
  Best of Contemporary
   Foreign Films
  Best of British Film
  Best of Documentary
   Films
  Roger Ebert's
   Overlooked Film Festival
  Top Shakespeare
   Adaptations
  Best of Avant Garde
  Best of Romance
  Select Sentimental
  Cream of Comedy
  Best Recent American
   Features
  Movies by 40
   Directors to watch
  Best Cinematography
  Masters of Montage
  Hollywood
   Contemporary Classic
  Cannes Winners
  Vatican Picks
  Best American
   Independent
  Best of
   Science-Fiction
 .


Photo Coming Soon
Blue Gardenia, The (1953)
Rating:
Starring: Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Nat "King" Cole, Richard Conte, George Reeves, Ann Sothern
Director: Fritz Lang
Category: Suspense / Thriller, Classic
Studio: Image Ent.
Subtitles:
[None]
Length:
88 mins

 
 

 

"A particularly venomous picture of American life."- Peter Bogdanovich, Director

Classic Hollywood film noir with a feminine twist, The Blue Gardenia stars Anne Baxter (All About Eve) as Norah Larkin, a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr).Branded The Blue Gardenia by a sensational columnist (Richard Conte), Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble and to remember the details of her ill fated night.As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her into such a notorious public figure.

The first of Lang's "newspaper noir" trio (with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) The Blue Gardenia is a scalding critique of the public's hunger for bloodshed and scandal.At the same time, it captures the panic of a nation sliding into cold war paranoia."It was the first picture after the McCarthy business," Lang later said."Maybe that's what made me so venomous."

Enhancing the melancholy mood of the film is the haunting theme song arranged by Nelson Riddle and performed to perfection by Nat "King" Cole.