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Watch: The Blue Dahlia 1946 123movies, Full Movie Online – When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son’s death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she’s not worth it. Later, Helen is found dead and Johnny is the prime suspect..
Plot: Soon after a veteran’s return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Good noir, good performances
“The Blue Dahlia” is a flower and a nightclub, both of which figure in the plot of this 1946 film starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix and Howard da Silva. There’s plenty of the busy, somewhat chaotic post-war atmosphere in this movie as war pals Johnny Morrison (Ladd), Buzz Wanchek (Bendix) and George Copeland (Hugh Beaumont) return from service. While the brain-damaged Buzz and Copeland get an apartment together, Morrison returns to his beautiful wife (Doris Dowling) whom he finds has been living a wild, party-filled existence and cheating on him with club owner Eddie Harwood (da Silva). Hurt and angry, Morrison, trying to get a cab in the rain, is picked up by none other than a beautiful blond named Joyce, who he does not know is actually Mrs. Harwood. After parting company, they both stay at the same inn without realizing it. The next morning, Morrison hears on the radio that his wife is dead, and the police are looking for him. On the run, and with some help from Joyce, Morrison tries to find out who really killed his wife.

This is a pretty good noir with a solid, effective performance from Ladd and excellent work by both Bendix and da Silva. There are plenty of suspects, too – viewers will have their pick. Though “The Blue Dahlia” is a decent noir, it’s the frenetic post-war energy that makes it watchable rather than the story, which as one reviewer here pointed out, has the strange coincidence of Johnny being picked up by Mrs. Harwood. The other odd thing to this viewer, anyway, is the fact that the Bendix character is so obviously brain-damaged from the war (he has a plate in his head), yet no one seems to really pick up on it, or at least acknowledge it, until later in the film. He’s told to pull himself together and allowed to drink. Meanwhile, loud music drives him nearly insane, and he suggests getting on a bus, not remembering he just got off of it.

The Veronica Lake role is criticized – it’s true she doesn’t have much to do; it’s also true that not many people liked working with her; and that she wasn’t the world’s greatest actress (Raymond Chandler called her Moronica), but she and Ladd made a great, if short, team, and she was always beautiful to look at and listen to.

All in all, worth watching for one of the great noir teamings and some good performances.

“Every Guy Has Seen You Somewhere.”
Raymond Chandler scripted the screenplay. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake (sporting a slightly shorter version of her trademark peek-a-boo hairstyle), are reunited in this stylish film noir. Johnny Morrison, just returned from military service, comes home to his Los Angeles bungalow to discover his fickle, unscrupulous wife, Helen (the relatively unknown Doris Dowling, best remembered as Ray Milland’s drinking buddy in “The Lost Weekend”), hasn’t exactly been waiting in the wings for him – she has been having an affair with Eddie Harwood (Howard da Silva) owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub (“You’ve got the wrong lipstick on, mister!”). She then drunkenly shrieks of how her impaired driving had killed their young son, which leads Johnny to threaten her with a gun, but he promptly leaves before he does something he’ll regret later. However, Helen is found dead the next morning, and Johnny, who had made the acquaintance of Joyce (Veronica Lake) is the prime suspect. Joyce offers to help, and Johnny’s war buddy (William Benedix) also wants him cleared, but, as with all Chandler noir, there are plenty of red herrings, twists and mazes of clues that don’t always make sense. Johnny feels he can’t trust Joyce when he discovers that she is the wife of Harwood, although she clearly wants nothing more to do with him. She tries to explain, but, Johnny dismisses her with, “So long, baby!” The truth does come out, but not until after a few fascinating plot twists. Many have said that this is not really noir, since Lake’s character is not so much a femme fatale as she is a mystery dame, but hey, if she sparks Ladd’s interest, that’s more than enough! Benedix, who had teamed with Ladd and Lake in “The Glass Key”, four years earlier, gives tremendous support, and his wounded, traumatized war veteran is a compelling character.

Chandler’s ungentlemanly treatment of Lake (calling her Moronica Lake and deriding her acting skills couldn’t have earned him very many points), may account for the reason why she appears blank in a few scenes, but she pulls the role off and she and Ladd make screen magic, as always. She and Dowling are beautifully costumed by Edith Head. On a rather morbid note, this film’s title was the inspiration of giving murder victim Elizabeth Short the moniker, “The Black Dahlia”. And the similar turns that both Ladd and Lake’s lives would take is very ironic and sad – both would see their careers slide, suffer from depression and die relatively young as a result of alcoholism. If there ever was a screen couple who ran neck and neck, it was these two!

A worthy DVD contender (what the heck is taking so long?) and let’s hope when such a day comes, plenty of extras will be included!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Director George Marshall
Writer Raymond Chandler
Actors Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (10 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm