With 10 or 11 silent films on its roster, the world/fusion music band Blue Dahlia considers Buster Keaton's "The General" the most complex it has scored. "The are more than 20 independent pieces ...

Paramount's fallen angels were quieter onscreen than Bogart and Bacall, but their visual harmony as slender, diminutive blond(e)s – he hard and unsentimental, she silky and insouciant – made for ...

Los Angeles, 1947. The body of a beautiful, young aspiring actress is found cut in half at the waist, her cheeks slashed to give her a macabre, post-mortem smile. Chunks of her flesh have been neatly ...

Playing a discharged naval flier returning home from the Pacific first to find his wife unfaithful, then to find her murdered and himself in hiding as the suspect, Alan Ladd does a bangup job.

The story of the Black Dahlia is one of the Southland’s most enduring and compelling mysteries. Occurring less than two years after the close of World War II and at a time when the nation was ...