Sorry but even while madly in love Bogey was still a selfish misanthropic brute. Unlike Rick in Casablanca, love does not redeem Bogey at the end. In fact in this film love just seems to make Bogey even more intolerable.
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While watching this movie, I couldn't help thinking how it would be different if it had been made today, and how Dixon's life could have been different with the help of modern medicine. It would have made for a happier ending, but the film is really a tragedy, and a very good story. I just couldn't help but feel sorry for him, because after all, he is in a lonely place.
shareVery well said, bassdrumgirl.
"Did you make coffee...? Make it!"--Cheyenne.
But what about the sequel, "Heart of Steele"?
Dixon fakes his own suicide by pushing his car into the ocean. He begins tramping about the world, searching for a way to forgive himself. He lets a dozen banal brutes beats the tar out of him and apologizes when his blood gets on them.
Laurel takes the lead role in Dixon's movie in his honor. On location in Bali, one of the crews "best boys" is seen cuffing a man for a sloppy shoe shine. Laurel moved to protect the shoe shine boy, only to discover it is her own Dixon Steele.
"Want a cigarette?" she says.
My money is on it.
shareWith a name like Dix Steel, he would be wise to venture into the porn industry.
shareYes, Dix seems to have psychological problems that would probably make any woman's life miserable, no matter how much in love they were.
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