New movie about the Black Dahlia

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:07 am

Do you remember the story of the Black Dahlia? The unsolved murder of a lady named Elizabeth Short. Nicknamed Black Dahila because she always dressed in black. There is a new movie about the murder due out next month. Here is a review of it.

http://et.tv.yahoo.com/movies/15370/

chocoholic · Post by **chocoholic** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:24 pm

I remember reading about this years ago and I think I saw a TV movie about it with someone like Luci Arnez in it. Must confess I am a bit gruesome and read quite a few books about real-life murders, but I promise you that I'm quite harmless, it's just another weird interest;)

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:26 pm

chocoholic wrote: I remember reading about this years ago and I think I saw a TV movie about it with someone like Luci Arnez in it. Must confess I am a bit gruesome and read quite a few books about real-life murders, but I promise you that I'm quite harmless, it's just another weird interest;)

Aha..another reason I like you. BTW..you are right about Luci Arnez being in the original

chocoholic · Post by **chocoholic** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:34 pm

Marie5656 wrote: Aha..another reason I like you. BTW..you are right about Luci Arnez being in the original

That's one of the main reasons I like FG so much, like-minded people:D

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:55 pm

this was released on DVD today, by necessity a fictionalized account of a horrific muder in hollywood. it was never solved. elizabeth short's murder was particularly gruesome. the movie was OK, but a little disappointing to me because of convoluted side-stories.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 3:50 pm

chocoholic;360954 wrote: Must confess I am a bit gruesome and read quite a few books about real-life murders, but I promise you that I'm quite harmless, it's just another weird interest;)

Something we have in common, Chocoholic.

I love reading Ann Rule books but must take a break after a while or the world starts looking really sad.

As I understand it, Dahlia was a case that Elliott Ness thought he was close to breaking but the suspect in question entered an asylum for the mentally ill and was therefore "off limits" to Ness. I've read Ness never really got over it and that was about his last hurrah in the detective world.