The Truth about Black Dahlia

Name: The Truth about Black Dahlia
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Released: 2007-06-13
Rating: 7.3

7.3(3)

52m

2007

Released

fr

Documentary Crime

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.

Release Date

June 13, 2007

Production

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Cast

11 people

Elizabeth Short

Self (archive footage)

Acting

George Hodel

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Steve Hodel

self

Acting

Tamar Hodel

self

Acting

Man Ray

archive footage

Directing

Paul Teetor

self

Acting

Stephen Kay

self

Acting

jeanne french

archive footage

Acting

Bill Stoner

self

Acting

Geneva Hilliker Ellroy

archive footage

Acting

James Ellroy

archive footage

Writing

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