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''In a Lonely Place'' is a 1950 film starring Creator/HumphreyBogart and Gloria Grahame, Creator/GloriaGrahame, [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted from from]] a 1947 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, and directed by Creator/NicholasRay.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the movie Dixon Steele, though violent, is only accused of being a murderer while in the book he is a serial killer and rapist.
* AloneWithThePsycho: The final scene in which furious Dix confronts Laurel in her apartment.
* AloneWithThePsycho: The final scene in which furious Dix confronts Laurel in her apartment.
* TheConfidant: Martha for Laurel.
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* {{Deconstruction}} : This film is a reaction against other FilmNoir, deliberately moving away from crude murder plots to focus more on the relationship. Specifically, it subverts Bogart's own screen persona, showing how difficult that kind of person would be around and making it decidedly less glamorous.
* DownerEnding : [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.]]
* DownerEnding : [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.]]
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* {{Deconstruction}} : {{Deconstruction}}: This film is a reaction against other FilmNoir, deliberately moving away from crude murder plots to focus more on the relationship. Specifically, it subverts Bogart's own screen persona, showing how difficult that kind of person would be around and making it decidedly less glamorous.
*DownerEnding : DisproportionateRetribution: Discussed after the road rage incident where Dix beat the other driver unconscious.
-->'''Dix:''' You heard what he called me.
-->'''Laurel''': That doesn't justify acting like a madman.
-->'''Dix''': Nobody can call me the things he did.
-->'''Laurel''': A blind, knuckle-headed squirrel. [[SarcasmMode That's real bad]].
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Apart from the TitleDrop, the movie also illustrates that Dixon Steele has painted himself back into a corner with his HairTriggerTemper.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.]]
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-->'''Dix:''' You heard what he called me.
-->'''Laurel''': That doesn't justify acting like a madman.
-->'''Dix''': Nobody can call me the things he did.
-->'''Laurel''': A blind, knuckle-headed squirrel. [[SarcasmMode That's real bad]].
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Apart from the TitleDrop, the movie also illustrates that Dixon Steele has painted himself back into a corner with his HairTriggerTemper.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.]]
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes : Dix Steele is a tragic accurate version of this, someone who's too paranoid and embittered to be around for a great deal of time.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes : TheFriendNobodyLikes: Dix Steele is a tragic accurate version of this, someone who's too paranoid and embittered to be around for a great deal of time.
* GaussianGirl: Close-ups on Laurel often showing her out-of-focus.
* HairTriggerTemper: Steele.
* HairTriggerTemper: Steele.
* LooseLips: At the beach Sylvia brings up Laurel's second visit to the police station which was supposed to stay a secret. Dix gets furious and storms off.
* MeaningfulEcho: When Dix leaves Laurel at the end she cites a line from his script: "I lived a few weeks while you loved me."
* MeaningfulEcho: When Dix leaves Laurel at the end she cites a line from his script: "I lived a few weeks while you loved me."
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* TheMurderAfter: Though the meeting is entirely platonic, Steele falls under suspicion anyway.
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* TheMurderAfter: Though the his meeting with the checkroom girl is entirely platonic, Steele falls under suspicion anyway.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Laurel has just decided to leave Dix when he comes around to prepare breakfast and propose to her which puts her in an extremely uncomfortable spot.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut/ToShakespeare. The drunken ClassicallyTrainedExtra who stumbles down the stairs in Steele's apartment quotes from Shakespeare's [[http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html Sonnet 29]].
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: How different Dixon's life could have been with the help of therapy.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: The opening credits read "The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional."
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: The opening credits read "The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional."
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* TragicHero: With Dixon's condition he is bound to stay in a lonely place for all his life.
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* WagTheDirector: In-universe. Brought up in conversation early on:
-->'''Mildred ''': Before I worked at Paul's, I used to think actors made up their own lines.
-->'''Dix''': When they get to be big stars they usually do.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Assaults do not warrant front page headlines, not even in small town weekly newspapers. The large image of a battered and bruiced football player making the headlines of a Los Angeles daily newspaper is a stretch.
-->'''Mildred ''': Before I worked at Paul's, I used to think actors made up their own lines.
-->'''Dix''': When they get to be big stars they usually do.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Assaults do not warrant front page headlines, not even in small town weekly newspapers. The large image of a battered and bruiced football player making the headlines of a Los Angeles daily newspaper is a stretch.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Something is clearly wrong with Dixon.
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'''Dix:''' Well, I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion.
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-->'''Capt. Lochner:''' You're told that the girl you were with last night was found in Benedict Canyon, murdered. Dumped from a moving car. What's your reaction? Shock? Horror? Sympathy? No - just petulance at being questioned. A couple of feeble jokes. You puzzle me, Mr. Steele.\\
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-->'''Capt. Lochner:''' You're told that the girl you were with last night was found in Benedict Canyon, murdered. Dumped from a moving car. What's your reaction? Shock? Horror? Sympathy? No - -- just petulance at being questioned. A couple of feeble jokes. You puzzle me, Mr. Steele.\\
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* IncriminatingIndifference: The police suspect Steele quickly due to the fact that he [[TheStoic barely reacts]] and even makes [[DeadpanSnaker a few sarcastic quips]] about the fact that a woman was murdered minutes after leaving his house.
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* IncriminatingIndifference: The police suspect Steele quickly due to the fact that he [[TheStoic barely reacts]] and even makes [[DeadpanSnaker [[DeadpanSnarker a few sarcastic quips]] about the fact that a woman was murdered minutes after leaving his house.
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* TheMurderAfter: Though the meeting is entirely platonic, Steele falls under suspicion anyway.
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A bleak thriller, ''In A Lonely Place'' is considered a classic of FilmNoir.
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* IncriminatingIndifference: The police suspect Steele quickly due to the fact that he [[TheStoic barely reacts]] to and even makes [[DeadpanSnaker a few sarcastic quips]] about the fact that a woman was murdered minutes after leaving his house.house.
-->'''Capt. Lochner:''' You're told that the girl you were with last night was found in Benedict Canyon, murdered. Dumped from a moving car. What's your reaction? Shock? Horror? Sympathy? No - just petulance at being questioned. A couple of feeble jokes. You puzzle me, Mr. Steele.\\
'''Dix:''' Well, I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion.
-->'''Capt. Lochner:''' You're told that the girl you were with last night was found in Benedict Canyon, murdered. Dumped from a moving car. What's your reaction? Shock? Horror? Sympathy? No - just petulance at being questioned. A couple of feeble jokes. You puzzle me, Mr. Steele.\\
'''Dix:''' Well, I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion.
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-->'''Dix:''' What's wrong with my script?
-->'''Mel:''' Nothing, but it's not the book. And that's what Brody asked for, a faithful adaptation.
-->'''Dix:''' The book was ''trash''!
-->'''Mel:''' Nothing, but it's not the book. And that's what Brody asked for, a faithful adaptation.
-->'''Dix:''' The book was ''trash''!
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'''Mel:''' Nothing, but it's not the book. And that's what Brody asked for, a faithful
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'''Dix:''' The book was ''trash''!
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->''I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.''
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* TypeCasting: Bogart plays the same jaded, stoic, wisecracking thug he would play as a private detective. And it works perfectly.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The main reason the original ending of the book was changed by the director and writer:
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--> ''"I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy (screenwriter Andrew Solt) and I had written... Romances don't have to end that way. Marriages don't have to end that way, they don't have to end in violence."''
--> ''"I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy (screenwriter Andrew Solt) and I had written... Romances don't have to end that way. Marriages don't have to end that way, they don't have to end in violence."''
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-->'''Dix:''' What's wrong with my script?
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-->'''Dix:''' The book was ''trash''!
-->'''Dix:''' What's wrong with my script?
-->'''Mel:'' Nothing, but it's not the book. And that's what Brody asked for, a faithful adaptation.
-->'''Dix:''' The book was ''trash''!
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* TheFriendNobodylikes : Dix Steele is a tragic accurate version of this, someone who's too paranoid and embittered to be around for a great deal of time.
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* TheFriendNobodylikes TheFriendNobodyLikes : Dix Steele is a tragic accurate version of this, someone who's too paranoid and embittered to be around for a great deal of time.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Dix, as the film goes on.
* {{Deconstruction}} : This film is a reaction against other FilmNoir, deliberately moving away from crude murder plots to focus more on the relationship. Specifically, it subverts Bogart's own screen persona, showing how difficult that kind of person would be around and making it decidedly less glamorous.
* DownerEnding : [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.]]
* DownerEnding : [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.]]
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* MostWritersAreWriters: The film starts out with Dixon being a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who has not had a hit "since before the war."
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* InNameOnly: The film is nothing like the novel, and all that is really carried over is the title, the names of the two main characters and Dix's vague occupation.
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The police continue to investigate the murder, which puts a strain on their budding romance as Laurel is questioned again and learns about Dixon's history of violent incidents, making her unsure if .if he's really innocent. As Laurel grows wary of Dixon and he becomes suspicious of her behavior, the tension in their relationship reaches a breaking point.
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''In A Lonely Place'' is a 1950 film starring HumphreyBogart and Gloria Grahame, adapted from a 1947 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes.
Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter who is commissioned to adapt a novel into a film. Too lazy to read the book, he invites the coat-check girl at his restaurant to his apartment to summarize the book for him. Hours after Steele sends her home, the girl is found murdered in a nearby ravine, and the police latch onto him as the prime suspect. Steele is given an alibi by his neighbor Laurel Gray (Grahame). After being released by the police, Steele strikes up a relationship with Gray, and they soon fall in love.
The police continue to investigate the murder, which puts a strain on their budding romance as Laurel is questioned again and learns about Dixon's history of violent incidents, making her unsure if . As Laurel grows wary of Dixon and he becomes suspicious of her behavior, the tension in their relationship reaches a breaking point.
A bleak thriller, ''In A Lonely Place'' is considered a classic of FilmNoir.
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* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler:A variation; no judicial consequences are at stake. The real murderer turns himself in anticlimactically, but Laurel and Dix's relationship has already fallen apart.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: Dix, as the film goes on.
* DearJohnLetter: Laurel writes one when she plans to leave for New York, but has to hide it.
* DownerEnding
* DuringTheWar: How Dixon Steele knew the detective Brub.
* FilmNoir
* HairTriggerTemper: Steele.
* FriendsRentControl: Dix is a screenwriter who hasn't had a hit in years, and Laurel has no known source of money except an alluded-to wealthy previous lover. Both have fairly nice apartments in Beverly Hills.
* IncriminatingIndifference: The police suspect Steele quickly due to the fact that he [[TheStoic barely reacts]] to the fact that a woman was murdered minutes after leaving his house.
* MeetCute
* NotHisSled: In the original novel, [[spoiler:Steele is a murderer, in the film he isn't]].
* PrettyInMink: Laurel, several times.
* SociopathicSoldier: It's implied that Steele was like this when he served in World War II.
* StylisticSuck: The book Steele is supposed to adapt sounds just as melodramatic and boring to the audience as it does to him.
* TheMurderAfter: Though the meeting is entirely platonic, Steele falls under suspicion anyway.
* TitleDrop: When Steele is discussing how the crime could have been committed.
* TypeCasting: Bogart plays the same jaded, stoic, wisecracking thug he would play as a private detective. And it works perfectly.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Not so much wacky as out-of-nowhere and ''incredibly'' uncomfortable.
* WrongfullyAccused
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Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter who is commissioned to adapt a novel into a film. Too lazy to read the book, he invites the coat-check girl at his restaurant to his apartment to summarize the book for him. Hours after Steele sends her home, the girl is found murdered in a nearby ravine, and the police latch onto him as the prime suspect. Steele is given an alibi by his neighbor Laurel Gray (Grahame). After being released by the police, Steele strikes up a relationship with Gray, and they soon fall in love.
The police continue to investigate the murder, which puts a strain on their budding romance as Laurel is questioned again and learns about Dixon's history of violent incidents, making her unsure if . As Laurel grows wary of Dixon and he becomes suspicious of her behavior, the tension in their relationship reaches a breaking point.
A bleak thriller, ''In A Lonely Place'' is considered a classic of FilmNoir.
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* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler:A variation; no judicial consequences are at stake. The real murderer turns himself in anticlimactically, but Laurel and Dix's relationship has already fallen apart.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: Dix, as the film goes on.
* DearJohnLetter: Laurel writes one when she plans to leave for New York, but has to hide it.
* DownerEnding
* DuringTheWar: How Dixon Steele knew the detective Brub.
* FilmNoir
* HairTriggerTemper: Steele.
* FriendsRentControl: Dix is a screenwriter who hasn't had a hit in years, and Laurel has no known source of money except an alluded-to wealthy previous lover. Both have fairly nice apartments in Beverly Hills.
* IncriminatingIndifference: The police suspect Steele quickly due to the fact that he [[TheStoic barely reacts]] to the fact that a woman was murdered minutes after leaving his house.
* MeetCute
* NotHisSled: In the original novel, [[spoiler:Steele is a murderer, in the film he isn't]].
* PrettyInMink: Laurel, several times.
* SociopathicSoldier: It's implied that Steele was like this when he served in World War II.
* StylisticSuck: The book Steele is supposed to adapt sounds just as melodramatic and boring to the audience as it does to him.
* TheMurderAfter: Though the meeting is entirely platonic, Steele falls under suspicion anyway.
* TitleDrop: When Steele is discussing how the crime could have been committed.
* TypeCasting: Bogart plays the same jaded, stoic, wisecracking thug he would play as a private detective. And it works perfectly.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Not so much wacky as out-of-nowhere and ''incredibly'' uncomfortable.
* WrongfullyAccused
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