Solving murder through media?

The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Director: Fritz Lang

This 1953 movie, directed by Fritz Lang, is an unusual story of how a murderer is apprehended through the media.

Norah (Anne Baxter), Crystal and another colleague are telephonists living together. Harry (Raymond Burr) is a painter who is a prowler of pretty girls. Norah is deeply in love with her army boyfriend in Korea. On her birthday, she received a letter informing her that he was breaking up to marry a nurse who nursed him to health when he was taken ill.

Devastated, Norah, on the rebound, decided to accept a date from Harry via a case of mistaken identity at the spur of the moment. Harry called to date Crystal, but Norah answered instead.

After a lovely dinner with too much of intoxicants, Norah followed Harry to his apartment. When Harry tries to rape a drunk Norah, she remembered fighting back and passing out. When she comes around, she runs home in the rain.

Slowly, as the papers report the murder, her memory of the event returns.

A newspaper editor announces the murderer to give an exclusive interview in return for legal representation. When Norah finally communicates with the editor, their conversation is intercepted by the bartender who informs the police. A disappointed Norah is apprehended.
Now, the editor does his own investigation. He discovers that the song that Norah heard on the turntable had been changed. By tracing the record, they found that the real murder was one of the girls Harry had jilted.

Nat King Cole makes an appearance in the film for the rendition of the song 'Blue Gardenia'.

Just another movie...

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