Kindly Dig Your Grave story
A commercial art gallery in Paris is run by the unscrupulous Madame La Grue, who is exploiting the artists she employs. She soon realizes that she has met her match, however, when one of her artists falls in love with the model he is painting. Directed by: Alan Gibson. Story by: Stanley Ellin.
13 total · 12 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| art related activity | major | The story centered around an art dealer buy paintings from artists. |
| blackmail | major | Fatima plotted to extort 400,000 francs from Madame La Grue by threatening to sell a salacious portrait of La Grue to her rival art dealer, which he would have used to ruin her reputation. |
| clash of wills | major | Mme La Grue clashed with the artist and his wife. |
| expecting parents | major | Graham and Fatima got desperate when she became pregnant. |
| getting a taste of one's own medicine | major | Madame La Grue playde a cruel guessins game with penniless artist Graham, but when she was blackmailed, an Graham's wife played the same game on her. |
| infatuation | major | Graham fell passionately in love with his model Fatima. |
| negotiation | major | Madame La Grue had a special way of negotiating to buy paintings whereby should would write her offer down without showing the artist, ask them how much they wanted for their painting, then only buy it if they offer was lower than the one she had written. |
| painting | major | We saw the working life of a painter portrayed. |
| remorse | major | Graham had buyer's remorse, actually seller's remorse, over selling a painting to Madame La Grue for about a fraction of the price of what she would have paid for it. |
| struggling artist character | major | Graham was struggling to sell his paintings in France. |