One-Two Punch, Part Two: Pulp Writers on Film: In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray (U.S., 1950)

Film - Feature | June 23 | 6:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Dorothy B. Hughes, Mickey Spillane, Elmore Leonard
6:30

In Andrew Solt’s terrific adaptation of Dorothy B. Hughes’s most pathological novel, Dix Steele (Humphrey Bogart as good as he gets) is a faltering Hollywood scriptwriter with anger management problems, not a serial killer as originally penned. When a coat check girl is found brutally murdered, Dix becomes a prime suspect, prodding his worst impulses to violently surface. At the same time, he falls deeply for his neighbor, the leafy Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame). Whether Dix is a murderer or not falls away and what Laurel is left pondering is that lonely place where Dix’s rage quietly stirs. Steve Seid

Written by Andrew Solt, based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, adapted by Edmund H. North. Photographed by Burnett Guffey. With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Art Smith. (94 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Sony Pictures)

Tickets: $5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty,  $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under),  $9.50 Adults (18-64)

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