Release Date
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Original Release
June 13, 2007
0h 52m
The Truth about Black Dahlia (2007)
⭐ 7.352 min
Overview
The unexplained deaths of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a "The Black Dahlia", in 1947 and of Geneva Hilliker Ellroy in 1958, had a profound impact on the psyche of James Ellroy, today's greatest crime writer. Steve Hodel, a retired LAPD cop, reveals everything about Georges Hodel, his own father as well as the perpetratror of those two unsolved murders, the most notorious ones in 20th century America. Steve Hodel retraces this amazing investigation in which genius and horror, Hollywood and the Marquis de Sade, incest and surgery, are blended into the grimmest of scenarios.
Director
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Thibaut Chatel
Department: Directing
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Cast
Elizabeth Short
Self (archive footage)
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George Hodel
Self (archive footage)
⭐1.0
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Steve Hodel
self
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Tamar Hodel
self
⭐1.1
Man Ray
archive footage
⭐0.6
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Paul Teetor
self
⭐0.7
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Stephen Kay
self
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jeanne french
archive footage
⭐0.3
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Bill Stoner
self
⭐0.5
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Geneva Hilliker Ellroy
archive footage
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Genres
DocumentaryCrime
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