The Blue Dahlia

“Double dame trouble! Double-barrelled action!”

Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) comes home from the war wanting one thing, his wife back, and finds Helen (Doris Dowling) has been seeing someone else. Soon she is dead, and the police have a short list that begins with him. George Marshall works from a Raymond Chandler script as Johnny, on the run, trusts a stranger, Joyce Harwood (Veronica Lake), who is married to Eddie (Howard Da Silva).