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.
Production
Label Image
Cast & Characters
Elizabeth Short
Self (archive footage)
George Hodel
Self (archive footage)
Steve Hodel
self
Tamar Hodel
self
Man Ray
archive footage
Paul Teetor
self
Stephen Kay
self
jeanne french
archive footage
Bill Stoner
self
Geneva Hilliker Ellroy
archive footage
James Ellroy
archive footage
Directors & Crew
Thibaut Chatel
Director
Claire Benoit
Writer
Guillaume Galliot
Writer
Laurence Chanut
Director
dalila bellil
Director
Screenshots & Stills
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