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    In A Lonely Place (1950)

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    Humphrey Bogart is Dixon Steele, an embittered and washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who pays hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson (Martha Stewart) to help out with a script read-through one night.

    When she’s found dead the next morning, Steele comes under suspicion until his actor neighbour, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame), gives him an alibi.

    Dix and Laurel fall in love but police suspicion sours the affair, as well as Dix’s violent temper which alarms Laurel.

    She agrees to marry him, but after he attacks his agent Mel (Art Smith), she plans to leave him and he attacks her.

    Even though the real murderer confesses they split up, their relationship destroyed by Dix’s violence.

    The story of a woman slowly coming to suspect that her partner is a murderer harkens back to 1940s melodramas such as Suspicion (1941) and Gaslight (1944), but the way the relationship is depicted here is much more nuanced and adult – more frightening in its barely contained violence.

    Film noir isn’t always as dark as it’s cracked up to be, but Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place is one film where the desolation cuts to the bone.

    Dixon ‘Dix’ Steele
    Humphrey Bogart
    Laurel Gray
    Gloria Grahame
    Brub Nicolai
    Frank Lovejoy
    Captain Lochner
    Carl Benton Reid
    Mel Lippman
    Art Smith
    Sylvia Nicolai
    Jeff Donnell
    Mildred Atkinson
    Martha Stewart
    Charlie Waterman
    Robert Warwick
    Lloyd Barnes
    Morris Ankrum
    Ted Barton
    William Ching
    Paul
    Steven Geray
    Junior
    Lewis Howard
    Frances Randolph
    Alice Talton
    Effie
    Ruth Warren
    Henry Kesler
    Jack Reynolds
    Martha
    Ruth Gillette
    Dr Richards
    David Bond
    Swan
    Guy Beach
    Mike
    Mike Romanoff
    Joe
    Arno Frey

    Director
    Nicholas Ray

    Humphrey Bogart
    Gloria Grahame
    Frank Lovejoy
    Carl Benton Reid

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