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Aug 16, 2024 · “In a Lonely Place,” by Dorothy B. Hughes (New York Review Books, 1947) From The Atlantic’s 2024 list of the best fiction of the past 100 years. Hughes turns the classic detective noir story on...
Aug 10, 2024 · Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) and his neighbor Laurel (Gloria Grahame) are just getting to know each other romantically when the police begin questioning Dixon about his involvement in the murder of a girl he met once.
2 days ago · In a Lonely Place (1950) was Nicholas Ray's breakthrough; his other noirs include his debut, They Live by Night (1948) and On Dangerous Ground (1952), noted for their unusually sympathetic treatment of characters alienated from the social mainstream.
Jul 27, 2024 · Humphrey Bogart stars as belligerent Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele in this twisty film noir. When asked to adapt a pulp novel, he asks the first person he meets who has read it, a cloakroom ...
Aug 11, 2024 · Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place is a self-important noir that thinks it's deeper than it actually is. Bogart's brooding act is tired and overdone, and the film's obsession with its own darkness is suffocating.
Aug 3, 2024 · Nicholas Ray, American motion-picture writer and director whose reputation as one of the most expressive and distinctive filmmakers of the late 1940s and the ’50s is grounded on such stylish heartfelt movies as They Live by Night (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), and, most notably, Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
3 days ago · Ray distinguished himself by working in nearly every conventionalised Hollywood genre, infusing them with distinctive stylistic and thematic approaches: Crime films, within the film noir cycle: They Live By Night, In A Lonely Place, and On Dangerous Ground; the social problem film Knock On Any Door; Westerns: Run For Cover, Johnny Guitar, and ...
