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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: BOGART,HUMPHREY
EAN: 9780767882910
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767882911
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 11132
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 17, 1950
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A 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
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Clumsy. But sincere.
There's something darn odd about Nicholas Ray's films. I'm thinking about this one, and Rebel without a Cause. Perhaps it's just that most movies in the 1950s were not much cop. You couldn't really call them good, let alone great. In this one the scaffolding supporting Bogart's performance as Dixon Steele (what a phony name) is quite mediocre, scarcely up to B-movie standard. The script is clunky, the dialogue poor, the second-string acting, especially the completely wooden cops and the ridiculous ... Read More
Rating:  - NICHOLAS RAY, OPUS 4
***** 1950. Loosely based on Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely Place (Femmes Fatales : Women Write Pulp), this film was directed by Nicholas Ray. A screenwriter, violent by nature, is suspected to have murdered a young woman he received in his apartment. Soon, his new girl-friend doesn't know anymore whether he's guilty or not. Superb movie about Hollywood and exceptional performance of the couple Humphrey Bogart-Gloria Grahame. Among the bonus, there is an interesting featurette which allows director ... Read More
Rating: - Very good Noir
This is a good film. We see the "noir" side of a charming, talented screen writer, who apparently is suffering from what we might today label post traumatic stress disorder. His propensity for violent outbursts are tempered by acts of unexpected generosity. No wonder the beautiful blond neighbor finds him "interesting" and then falls completely in love with him.
Bogart and Grahame are a great match. Bogart is wonderful, as always and Grahame certainly holds her own with him. In many ... Read More
Rating:  - Tries hard but doesn't succeed.
An ambitious movie, but not one of Bogart's better ones, mainly because of the story and timing. Classified as a noir, although it never occurred to me while watching. Bogart is a Hollywood script writer with a bad temper and a tendency to violence. Suspected of a murder he didn't commit, he falls in love with his neighbor, Gloria Grahame, in one of her bigger roles. Their relationship is tortured by the murder suspicion and Bogart's temper, which eventually destroys the relationship. An unhappy ending. ... Read More
Rating: - The Heart is a 'Lonely' Hunter
Nicholas Ray will be cemented in pop culture history, anonymously, as "the guy who directed REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE." This is a travesty on two levels: One, REBEL isn't even Ray's best movie (it's only his most famous), and two, because many think that the aching heart came from James Dean's raw performance. While Dean is heart wrenchingly good, REBEL would not have half of its power without Ray, a maverick American director whose best and most personal films would sympathize with the loners and rebels always ... Read More
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