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Jun 27, 2001 · June 27, 2001. Not unlike Albert Camus’s The Stranger, Nicholas Ray’s remarkable In a Lonely Place represents the purest of existentialist primers. Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart), a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter under pressure to produce a good screenplay, has been given the simple task of writing a cut-and-dry adaptation of a novel when ...
A down-on-his-luck studio scribe reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Subtitles: English. Starring:Humphrey BogartGloria GrahameFrank LovejoyCarl Benton ReidArt SmithJeff DonnellMartha Stewart. Directed by:Nicholas Ray.
The 1947 novel of In A Lonely Place has real film noir credentials however — it's set in post WW2 Los Angeles, where the character of Dix Steele is a lonely ex-airman who wanders the streets at night and the murderer (when revealed) is a woman-hating rapist. Suffice it to say, the set-up, investigation and outcome of the movie version are ...
In a Lonely Place (1950) is maverick director Nicholas Ray's and Columbia Pictures' well-respected, bleak, mature, and dramatic film noir, although it was not a box-office hit and received no Academy Award nominations. The dark melodrama, Ray's fourth feature film (and his second collaboration with Humphrey Bogart after Knock on Any Door (1949 ...
In a Lonely Place is 1351 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 513 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than The Official Story but less popular than Heartbreakers.
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The story concerns a Hollywood screenwriter (Bogart) who is suspected of being a murderer. Grahame, a neighbor, steps in to defend him she saw the murdered woman leave his apartment alone. Afterwards, they begin a relationship. But Bogart's nature is a violent one, and that violence keeps pushing forward.
Aug 22, 2017 · The 1950 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame was adapted from a lesser-known 1947 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, who belongs in the crime-writing pantheon. The novel's just been re ...
