TY - ADVS AU - Cohen,Rudy AU - Diamant,Moshe AU - Linson,Art AU - Friedman,Josh AU - De Palma,Brian AU - Hartnett,Josh AU - Johansson,Scarlett AU - Eckhart,Aaron AU - Swank,Hilary AU - Zsigmond,Vilmos AU - Isham,Mark AU - Ellroy,James ED - Universal Pictures (Firm) ED - Millennium Films. ED - Signature Films (Firm) ED - Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG III. ED - Nu Image (Firm) TI - The Black Dahlia PY - 2006/// CY - Universal City, Calif. PB - Universal Pictures KW - Short, Elizabeth, KW - Police KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Drama KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Mutilation KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Feature films KW - Films for the hearing impaired N1 - Widescreen; Based on the novel by James Ellroy; Special features: "Reality and fiction: the story of 'The Black Dahlia" ; the case file ; the De Palma touch; DVD release of the 2006 motion picture; Director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond ; editor, Bill Pankow ; music, Mark Isham ; costume desiger, Jenny Beavan ; production designer, Dante Ferretti; Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Fischler, James Otis; MPAA rating: R; for strong violence, some grisly images, sexual content and language N2 - Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered with a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public ER -