The Blue Dahlia (7/10)
My first impressions of this was that it was a bit nondescript, but I've since found myself watching it over and over again. I still wouldn't call it a masterpiece but it does have a strange addictive quality to it, at least for me. It's also a good example of a film where the supporting characters are far more fascinating than the main ones. Hollywood certainly missed a trick when promoting Veronica Lake over the infinitely more enjoyable Doris Dowling - surely one of the great unsung femme fatales in movie history, while VL was just an instantly recognisable hairdo.