In a Lonely Place
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Movie Reviews of In a Lonely Place
Movie Review: Different film for Bogie. Noirish film with Gloria Grahame
Summary: 4 Stars
The DVD transfer is very good.
A screenwriter, Dix (Humphrey Bogart), brings a young girl home to tell him about a novel he doesn't want to read. After she leaves his apartment, she if found murdered. Dix must rely on a pretty neighbor (Gloria Grahame) for his alibi. The two become romantically involved to the point of planning marriage. However, as time progressed, Grahame begins to see a strange side of Dix. He has a violent uncontrollable temper. It's beginning to look like Dix just might have done the crime.
This is a great performance for Bogart. He plays the unbalanced writer to a tee. Gloria Grahame has one of her best parts ever and she looks great in the film as well. In fact, the whole ensemble cast gives a fine performance. This one is a little different from normal film noir and it's well worth the price and viewing time.
Recommended for: Suspense fans, Bogie fans, Gloria Grahame fans and film noir fans. Not for young children.
Movie Review: Bogey's Best
Summary: 4 Stars
Here's late 1940's early 1950's Film Noir, a love gone wrong drama. Bogart's ugliness, the angles of his forehead, the lines about his mouth are fascinating. Bogart is both violent and tender by body language. A truly remarkable and revealing performance. Not that the dialogue doesn't matter. It's brilliant give and take, literary musings with tough guy and gal repertoire. Gloria Graham is no piker either. She is the beautiful actress, but there is no doubt she loves Dixon Steele the screenwriter and comes to fear him too. I can't imagine another actress of this period pulling off this love story. And we get Bogart in love, a tough, and maybe psychotic guy in love. His manliness is counterpoint to his unprotected psyche. Also homage should be paid to Nicholas Ray's direction. There is a dark LA at night, eyes in the headlights of a post-war Buick feel in his direction. The story is adapted from a potboiler novel, but the adaptation takes it to another level.Movie Review: Think about it.
Summary: 4 Stars
Made before there was a diagnosis for Anger Management or Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome in veterans, this movie is interesting as a study of a psychological condition, misunderstood as writers' temper, Though the result is less absorbing than a Hitchcock treatment might have been for the same material, it, too, manipulates the audience, making the hero likaable at first, raising doubts, then absolving him, as the point were to demonstrate power over the audience. In-jokes and incidental business also make this a writers' film. This explains the film's message: Authority can ruin people's lives merely by investigating, even when lawful and acting in good faith. Viewed as reaction to Congressional witch hunts and studio blacklists, the film is intelligible, and its ending inevitable.http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/communities/reviews/preview-active._V192249892_.gif
Movie Review: Content Superior; Transfer Average
Summary: 4 Stars
This film lives up to its reviews as a complex, interesting trans-genre film that is among Bogart's best performances. See it if you like films of the period, like Bogart, and/or want to have first-hand knowledge of a revered film noir. Criticisms here about poor transfer are valid, probably prompted by Columbia (Sony) making such a big deal on the disk about the pains-staking "restoration." If we were not told of the restoration efforts, you would not imagine any were done: there are still plenty of scratchy, dull scenes, and on my disk, and one digital break-up. It's still worth seeing, and maybe owning, but the movie studio, in the future, should make less ballyhoo about there restoration work, since it raises expectations beyond what is delivered.Joe Oliver
Movie Review: so close to a 5 star!
Summary: 4 Stars
Pretty 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?