Grim and haunting, this quintessentially film noir boasts iconic performances from Bogart and Gloria Grahame and is one of the most personal, deeply felt works by Nicholas Ray.
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07/19/09
In a Lonely Place (1950)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:27
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Just when hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) begins a romance with his neighbor Laurel (Gloria Graham), the police begin to suspect him of murdering a woman he only... [More]
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Robert Warwick
Director: Nicholas Ray
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Reviews for In a Lonely Place
The genre trappings of this noir masterpiece -- which details the short-lived relationship between live-wire screenwriter Dixon Steele (Bogart) and his goldilocked muse Laurel Gray (Grahame) -- don’t matter a whit.
07/15/09
The grayest, most morally ambiguous of film noirs -- and arguably the most self-reflexive.
07/15/09
Top CriticNicholas Ray’s 1950 film deserves to be better known; it’s one of Hollywood’s finest examinations of masculinity.
07/15/09
grim and glorious
07/14/09
Ray wrings plenty of sweat from the Hitchcockian premise, and Bogart outdoes himself as a man mid-breakdown.
10/23/07
It's a breathtaking work, and a key citation in the case for confession as suitable material for art.
10/23/07
Top CriticDirector Nicholas Ray maintains nice suspense. Bogart is excellent. Gloria Grahame, as his romance, also rates kudos.
10/23/07
Top CriticAs compelling now as the day it was released.
10/23/07
Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring.
06/24/06
A superior cut of melodrama.
03/25/06
Top CriticNo review available.
03/18/06
It's a truly great film.
01/28/06
No review available.
05/08/05
One of the best--and most underrated--noirs.
12/18/04
No review available.
08/15/04
Humphrey Bogart gives the performance of his career.
08/01/04
Tough as nails thriller with a dynamite noir feel.
03/01/04
Oferecendo uma das melhores atuações de sua brilhante carreira, Bogart cria um indivíduo assustadoramente ambíguo, enquanto Grahame ilustra com talento o conflito emocional de sua personagem.
09/26/03
A near-analytic treatise on the danger of faith in image and artifice, it also offers the wholly compelling image of Humphrey Bogart himself.
03/28/03
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