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In a Lonely Place by Nicholas Ray
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Art Smith, Carl Benton Reid, Frank Lovejoy, Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart Director: Nicholas Ray Brand: BOGART,HUMPHREY Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey Editor: Viola Lawrence Producer: Henry S. Kesler Producer: Robert Lord Writer: Andrew Solt Writer: Dorothy B. Hughes Writer: Edmund H. North DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 94 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-03-18 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of In a Lonely PlaceMovie Review: so close to a 5 star! Summary: 4 StarsPretty good movie. If you like Bogart this is a must not his best role but one of his better indeed). I didn't really like the actress that played the leading lady though, but she did her job in giving the script the tension needed. I would of liked if Bogart's character Steele would of been isolated a little in the flick (psychically scenes-representing emotional isolation; maybe to make you feel a little sympathy for him becuase after all we dont know if he did it or not, adding another emotional layer for the audience),hence "in a lonely place". Last thought: ole Dix Steele is a prime patient for PTSD therapy, no?
Summary of In a Lonely PlaceA hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi, but his volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: UN Release Date: 1-JAN-2007 Media Type: DVD One of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances dominates this unusual 1950 film noir, which focuses less on the murder mystery at the center of its plot than on the investigation's devastating effect on a fragile romance. For Bogart, already a noir icon, the Andrew Solt script afforded an opportunity to explore a more complex and contradictory role--an antiheroic persona in line with the actor's most accomplished and absorbing triumphs throughout his career. For maverick director Nicholas Ray, the film posed the challenge of taking crime dramas beyond their usual formulas and into a more mature realm, as well as a chance to cast a jaundiced eye on the film industry itself. Its protagonist is Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter with an acerbic wit and a violent temper. Tasked with adapting a bestseller, he meets a hatcheck girl who's read the book, hoping to glean its highlights before writing the script. When she's found murdered, Steele becomes the prime suspect, and a tightening knot of suspicion forms around the writer. Steele's only, inconclusive witness is a pretty new neighbor, Laurel (Gloria Grahame), and the couple fall in love even as the pressure mounts. At first the new relationship is a tonic to the hard-boiled writer, who plunges into his script with a renewed vigor and discipline. But as the police continue to shadow him, Steele's own penchant for violence erupts against friends, strangers, and even Laurel herself, whose feelings are increasingly eclipsed by suspicion that her lover is a murderer, and fear that he'll harm her. Bogart conveys Steele's world-weariness and underlying vulnerability, and manages the delicate task of making both his romantic yearning and sudden, murderous rages equally convincing. Ultimately, that performance and Grahame's sympathetic work elevate In a Lonely Place into what has been called "an existential love story" more than a crime drama. --Sam Sutherland
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