The Blue Dahlia
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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When a former bomber pilot (Alan Ladd) comes home from the war, he finds his wife kissing her substitute boyfriend (Howard Da Silva), the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. When she also confesses that her drunkenness caused their son's death, he walks out on her, but later she is found dead and he becomes the prime suspect. Written by Raymond Chandler. Alan Ladd as Johnny Morrison Veronica Lake as Joyce Harwood William Bendix as Buzz Wanchek Howard Da Silva as Eddie Harwood Doris Dowling as Helen Morrison Tom Powers as Capt. Hendrickson Hugh Beaumont as George Copeland If you have a request or a comment for me, please go to the Colorized Movies Forum at https://archive.org/details/colorized-movies?tab=forum I colorized this using AI software that doesn't always get the colors right, but I think it looks fairly natural. Hopefully a more professional job will be done someday.
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- Director
- George Marshall
- Starring
- Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Tom Powers, Hugh Beaumont, Howard Freeman
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