![]() ![]() The end credits thanked Emmett Linscott, Madeleine's father, and Bucky digs deeper into a story Madeleine told about him using old film sets to build cheap firetrap housing. Kay follows him and she is appalled to see Madeleine's striking resemblance to the Dahlia.īucky starts putting the pieces together and remembers props in another movie matched the set in Elizabeth's pornographic film. Bucky realizes Lee was there to kill DeWitt and leaves, furious, to return to Madeleine, where he notices a painting of a leering clown. Lee rescued Kay, stole DeWitt's money, and put DeWitt behind bars. Kay reveals that she had been DeWitt's girlfriend and that he abused her. The next morning, Bucky finds money hidden in Lee and Kay's bathroom. The grief of losing Lee propels Bucky and Kay into having sex. Lee and the man holding the rope fall over the railing to their deaths several floors below. Bucky finds DeWitt in the atrium of a building before he is gunned down by Lee, then sees a man garrote Lee before a second figure steps out and slits Lee's throat. After Lee and Bucky have a nasty argument about a previous case, Bucky goes to Lee and Kay's to apologize, only to learn from Kay that Lee was responding to a tip about Bobby DeWitt. Lee's obsession leads him to become erratic and abusive toward Kay. She introduces him to her wealthy parents almost immediately. Madeleine, who comes from a prominent family, tells Bucky that she was 'very close' with Elizabeth but asks him to keep her name out of the papers in exchange for sexual favors. He goes to a lesbian nightclub and meets Madeleine Linscott, who looks very much like Elizabeth. ![]() Both detectives become obsessed with solving the case.īucky learns that Elizabeth was an aspiring actress who appeared in a pornographic film and hung out with lesbians. Soon after, on January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short's dismembered body is found and she is dubbed " The Black Dahlia" by the press. He also discovers that Kay has been branded with the initials "BD", for Bobby DeWitt, the gangster whose arrest and conviction for a big bank robbery made Lee's career. Bucky is shocked when Kay tells him she isn't sleeping with Lee, and later tries to seduce him, but he refuses. Lee introduces Bucky to his girlfriend Kay Lake, and the trio becomes inseparable. LAPD Detectives Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are paired as partners after engaging in a boxing match to raise public support for the department. Despite its critical and financial failure, Kirshner's performance was widely praised and Vilmos Zsigmond was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 79th Academy Awards. The film was theatrically released in the United States on September 15, 2006, to largely negative reviews from critics and was a box office failure, effectively ousting De Palma from the Hollywood studio system, with his subsequent productions being filmed and financed overseas. ![]() The Black Dahlia premiered at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2006, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion. Principal photography began in Pernik and Sofia in April 2005, with additional photography in Los Angeles. De Palma was ultimately hired after Fincher dropped out to direct Zodiac instead. The rights to the novel were optioned by De Palma a decade prior, with David Fincher originally attached to direct. Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, John Kavanagh, Rachel Miner, and Rose McGowan appear in supporting roles. Starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, and Hilary Swank, the film follows two Los Angeles Police Department detectives investigating Short's murder, leading them through a series of shocking revelations. ![]() The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Josh Friedman, based on the 1987 novel of the same name by James Ellroy, in turn inspired by the widely sensationalized murder of Elizabeth Short. ![]()
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