Superb film noir, brilliantly directed by the gifted Ray with Bogart as a talented but volatile Hollywood screenwriter.
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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
As compelling now as the day it was released.
10/23/07
Ray wrings plenty of sweat from the Hitchcockian premise, and Bogart outdoes himself as a man mid-breakdown.
10/23/07
No review available.
05/08/05
Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film deserves to be better known; it’s one of Hollywood’s finest examinations of masculinity.
07/15/09
A superior cut of melodrama.
03/25/06
grim and glorious
07/14/09
It's a breathtaking work, and a key citation in the case for confession as suitable material for art.
10/23/07
Top CriticNo review available.
07/26/02
A top-notch film noir about the loneliness and despair in Tinseltown...
09/10/01
Like Albert Camus' The Stranger, In a Lonely Place is the epitome of existentialist primers.
06/27/01
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.
07/19/09
One of the best--and most underrated--noirs.
12/18/04
Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring.
06/24/06
The grayest, most morally ambiguous of film noirs -- and arguably the most self-reflexive.
07/15/09
Top CriticNo review available.
03/18/06
It's a truly great film.
01/28/06
No review available.
08/09/02
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
Tough as nails thriller with a dynamite noir feel.
03/01/04
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