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The Truth about Black Dahlia
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The Truth about Black Dahlia

2007-06-13 · 52 min · ★ 7.3

Documentary · Crime

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.

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Directors
Thibaut Chatel, Laurence Chanut, dalila bellil
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France
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Elizabeth ShortElizabeth ShortSelf (archive footage)
George HodelSelf (archive footage)
Steve Hodelself
Tamar Hodelself
Man RayMan Rayarchive footage
Paul Teetorself
Stephen Kayself
jeanne frencharchive footage
Bill Stonerself
Geneva Hilliker Ellroyarchive footage
James EllroyJames Ellroyarchive footage

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