![]() For while In a Lonely Place is an undeniable masterpiece-arguably the greatest of all films noirs-as adaptations go, it’s one of the least faithful ever made. This scene is one of several meta-layers that helps set In a Lonely Place apart from other LA-set noirs, with Dix’s casual disregard for the book he’s tasked to translate to screen mirroring that of director Ray’s. ![]() During a key scene early in Nicholas Ray’s romantic thriller In a Lonely Place (1950), our hero, brilliant but volatile Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart), presses a starry-eyed hat check girl-whose strangulation a few hours hence will place Dix under a cloud of suspicion that won’t lift until he’s already sealed his dire fate-into service by having her recount the plot of a novel she’s just finished reading and which he’s been hired to adapt. ![]()
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