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The ending

posted 8 years ago by mercury4
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The ending was supposed to be a twist ending and it was also supposed to be sad. She finds out that Bogart really didn't kill the girl after they end up getting the real killer. I get the ending how the damage was already done and they couldn't stay together. But when I saw the movie, I thought to myself that even though he didn't kill the girl, he was still a loose canon. Why would anyone want to stay with a psycho like that? He was nuts. I thought finding out he was really innocent of the murder was irrelevant. He wasn't a murderer, but he had a violent explosive temper and he was dangerous.

[–] MsELLERYqueen2 8 years ago

That's really why she said to him, "I can't live with a maniac."

He saw that he had no choice but to leave her. She didn't want him.

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen 🎇

[–] Rolltide (964) 2 years ago

Agree. He is still violent and controlling. He drove like a maniac and then when gets into a crash he ends up beating the kid and would have killed him had she not been there to stop him.

He strikes his agent an older smaller man rather violently.

The gist of the film of course is that police attention on him as a suspect causes much of the tension but there is no excuse for that.