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Curtis Hanson, in the DVD featurette 'In A Lonely Place Revisited', further analyses the similarities and differences between the novel and the film. He notes that there is a parallel in the film between Steele's adaptation of a novel for film and the adaptation of In a Lonely Place for film. He also notes that a difference between Steele in ...
The film differs from the novel in several substantial ways. Mostly notably, in the film, despite being a violent man with a hot temper, Steele is innocent of the murder he's suspected of committing, and is sincere in his desire to be a successful screenwriter; in the novel, he is a misogynistic, sociopathic killer who claims to be a crime novel writer in order to sponge off of a wealthy uncle.
- Dorothy B. Hughes
- 1947
Aug 30, 2017 · The following is from Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel, In a Lonely Place. Newly reissued by NYRB, this 1947 novel is a Los Angeles noir with a forward-looking, feminist twist and the inspiration behind Nicholas Ray's classic film of the same name. Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993) was the author of 13 novels and a poetry collection, as well as an ...
One of the things I most enjoy about In a Lonely Place is the streak of cynical humor running through it. The idea of a completely reworking the plot of an (at the time) unfilmable novel about a drifter serial killer into a good movie about a hack screenwriter who completely reworks the plot of an unfilmable novel into a good screenplay is Charlie Kaufman fifty years before Charlie Kaufman.
Dorothy B. Hughes, Paula Rabinowitz (Afterword) 4.12. 7,464 ratings1,075 reviews. Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect.
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May 6, 2016 · The book has been edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke. The article on In a Lonely Place was written by Megan Abbott. I’m sure I would have liked In A Lonely Place without reading Abbott’s essay but I might have missed a few things. Hughes novel is one of the first serial killer novels and inspired later works like Jim Thompson’s The ...
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Mar 20, 2018 · For the London Review of Books, Gaby Wood writes about Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place (1950) and the 1947 novel it’s based on by Dorothy B. Hughes. “When filming began, Ray was married to its female lead, Gloria Grahame; by the time it ended, they were living apart. Ray said it was ‘a very personal film’—and as parting gifts go, it was both poisonous and immortal.” The novel ...
