16mm Film 53 BLUE GARDENIA - Fritz Lang - NOIR Baxter Start Price USD 499.99 Current Price USD 499.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 26, 2008 End Time Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Location No Andover, MA See more about '16mm Film 53 BLUE GARDENIA - Fritz Lang - NOIR Baxter' Description '53 The Blue Gardenia - Fritz Lang - NOIR This is a 16mm B&W/sound film print of the superb 1953 film noir classic  "Blue Gardenia" Directed by Fritz Lang and starring Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Richard Conte & Ann Southern  Here's a brief synopsis & reviewfrom AMG: " After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on her, she hits him with a poker. Unfortunately, Prebble is found dead the next morning, and Norah, not even remembering how she got home, thinks that she killed him. Meanwhile, newspaperman Casey Mayo (Richard Conte), looking for an angle, invites the "Blue Gardenia Murderess" to turn herself in to him. The high point of the film is the interplay between the vulnerable Baxter and Burr at his smarmiest. The Blue Gardenia contains one of the purest examples of Fritz Lang's ability to transform commonplace pieces of household technology (such as clocks and telephones) into engines of destiny. Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter), at a moment of weakness (she's just read a letter from her boyfriend breaking off their relationship), answers a phone call meant for someone else and finds herself on a blind date with Raymond Burr's sleazy Harry Prebble, who ends up dead at the end of the night. In interviews, Lang often dismissed this film as a job-for-hire, but its recurring image of the telephone as a sinister conduit of possibly fatal information (and misinformation) remains intriguing. Decked out in a wonderfully tacky 1950s milieu featuring a tiki bar with Nat "King" Cole on the bandstand, The Blue Gardenia subtly questions that decade's mass-produced cultural blandness by exposing the dark side that's never very far below the surface, at least in Lang's films.." pictures are from the actual print:   Print Condition : Physical Condition: Print is mainly in excellent condition. The first 15 minutes of reel 1 has a light black line, but otherwise the print is very clean with only a few minor splices. ORIGINAL. Vinegar Syndrome: No sign of vinegar . Terms and Conditions: Payment: The winner of this auction agrees to make payment within 10 days of the end of the auction unless prior arrangements are made. Shipping: Shipping in the USA is via UPS  (Enter your zip code below for cost). I do not ship via USMail within the continental USA (But I will ship USMail to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands). International shipping is via Air Mail, mail. I can also ship via UPS express. For Canada, I can ship via USMail or via UPS Standard service. *** Note: Due to ebays new shipping policy, I need to use calculated shipping costs for feature films because of their heavy weight. Please note, that even if the shipping calculator says that shipping is higher than $15, I will NOT charge more than $15 to ship a feature film in the USA *** Non-US orders I will ship worldwide. The buyer agrees to make payment by paypal only, and agrees to pay the appropriate shipping costs by air mail. Please contact me in advance if you wish to know what the shipping charge will be. Guarantee The film is guaranteed to be in the condition stated above or I will gladly refund your purchase price. There are no refunds on shipping charges, unless a condition should arise where I have made a gross error or omission in disclosing the condition of a film (in which case shipping costs both ways will be refunded, at my discretion). Please note: all requests for return must be made within 7 days of your receipt of the film – after that time, all sales become final. Returns will not be accepted for any other reason than errors on my part in the listing. Be sure to check my other auctions by clicking here. Good Luck! Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!