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The Black Dahlia
The story of the murder of young actress Elizabeth Short, known as 'The Flower of the Black Dahlia,' and the lack of knowledge of the perpetrators of the heinous crime, where Elisabeth was brutally and brutally murdered on the street, has given the case to two new investigators to find themselves once they have taken the case into a mysterious and terrible world. Lies and corruption.

















29 July 1980, New York City, New York, USA


29 July 1950, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

4 September 1972, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

17 March 1964, Liverpool, England, UK


16 February 1948, Missoula, Montana, USA

23 July 1944, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA


22 June 1948, Colorado, USA


July 23, 2007
Won't do much to dissuade the common rap against De Palma as a cold technician who takes projects just for the elaborate set pieces they provide him.
September 15, 2006
There are moments when The Black Dahlia projects a spectral world, but its ghosts in broad daylight are elusive at best.
September 23, 2006
This is far from one of the director's better efforts and should be avoided by all those who are not sworn De Palma boosters.
December 07, 2007
You've barely time to soak up one revelation before another one is dumped on you from a great height.
August 30, 2009
Visual marvel after visual marvel
July 06, 2010
An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.
September 23, 2006
Ellroy's prose crawls into characters' secret hearts and under the reader's skin, but its foetid horrors become kitschy here, the script too streamlined and the lead performances too shallow to dredge the story's depths.
April 26, 2008
DePalma is like a magician who dazzles us with a trick only to show us, alas, it really was only a trick, and in the meantime he's stolen our watch.
September 23, 2006
The picture is a kind of fattened goose that's been stuffed with goose-liver pâté. It's overrich and fundamentally unsatisfying.
September 20, 2006
Mr. De Palma and his collaborators have been unable to translate Mr. Ellroy's depth of feeling into cinematic equivalents.
September 23, 2006
The pairing of Ellroy and De Palma proves a marriage made in hardboiled heaven.
February 17, 2014
The Black Dahlia doesn't solve the eternal De Palma dilemma, but it sure does fascinate.