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Film Noir

American society was straining to recover from the war while also trying to adapt to the new line-up of international friends and enemies. This also explains why the style became so pervasive, since it was speaking to the national psyche that existed at the time, and that psyche did not kick in only for one genre of film but was "in the air," as it were.

In a Lonely Place was produced in the immediate post-war period when Americans were having to reconsider the map of the world and their own place in it. Even this early, there was a growing sense of paranoia that is captured perfectly in this film, which tells the story of a man falsely suspected of a crime and of the devastating effect this has on his personal relationship with a woman he has recently met. Dix is a screenwriter with a violent temper who is in the throes of creating a particularly difficul

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