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.
