Orson-1 Like many 50's films these days, all Hitchcock for example, this film's reputation, for some reason, has overshot reality.Sunset Boulevard, released in the same year, is a much better film. It doesn't go out of its way to be different for difference's sake, as this does. Lonely Place is less than the sum of it's parts and the parts ain't very good. A slightly better than average film.I would suggest watching Beat The Devil right afterward to get this film's turgid taste out of your mind.

Tim Daldrup The review contains some very light spoilers:After watching this Bogey movie I am in various ways shocked! First of all I am shocked I never saw this picture before. Second I am shocked of Bogart's performance. This was tremendous! On the one hand so dark, deeply self-destructive and desperate, the mind of a writer oscillating between the fascination of the violence, which he puts in his screenplays and the film noir generic heavy, but belated regret - on the other hand so gentle swaying and charming, causing an extraordinary desire in us to be accepted by our environment, to be accepted by him. Bogart's face does the rest. After all he remains in the people's head as one of the untouchables, whom about nowadays only few living human beings can tell us. Third I am shocked of the dramaturgical brilliance of this film. The vehicle to generate tension through leaving the audience in the unknown of whether their favorite character is a murderer or not finds perfection here. Nicholas Ray proceeds with us to a roller coaster drive of hope, anger, fear and satisfaction. Even if this is a pre-Strassberg movie all the actors do a very good job. Jeez they even move pretty much around and interact with the other cast members instead of staying at one designated spot. Especially Bogart and Gloria Grahame perform together very intensively. Laurel Gray seems to be so afraid of Dixie Steele at some point I was concerned about, if all this wasn't just acting on the set. At last we also can find some obvious, but really cool meta-thoughts on theater and the Hollywood star- and production system at that time. Or you just smile at the scene, where Nicholas Ray tries to convince the audience through the actors and explicit dialogue that this particular one is the perfect love scene. Well hats off for "In a Lonely Place"! Watch it, you won't regret it.

elvircorhodzic IN A LONELY PLACE is a film in which the action takes place in two apartments and a picturesque courtyard. The paradox in the title of the film is excellent. Souls are lonely. Incapable of changing and incapable of love. The mystery surrounding the murder of a young girl is a certain kind of trial for the main protagonists.Angry and aggressive writer who lives at the expense of success in the past and lawfully but very clever actress connects a murder mystery. Both of them are in some way involved and carry a certain burden. They fall in love and problems arise when the burden should be divided. I think they are both burned in their own idealism. The story can be viewed as a mystery, and the main male character as an enigma. Although, I can easily say that this is a character who has a problem with a lack of understanding and control of emotions. This is certainly not a heartbreaking love story but a classic noir attitude of a man with a dark place in his soul and a woman who at all costs trying to heal him. The main male character becomes a victim of its nature, the main female character are the victim of his self-esteem.Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele just plays well sensitive characters. At this point I would like that fact attributed experience. Characters that are not true heroes, with the specific style and tone. They are appealing and interesting, but often persecuted and sinful. Sometimes guided by greed and lust.Gloria Grahame as Laurel Gray is a change in man. A woman who can change the human temperament. Her self-esteem and fear they create an alarm that was waking up from a fairy tale in the real world close to a nightmare.This film is born and dies in a few weeks of love.

begob A volatile screenwriter avoids a murder charge on the alibi of his beautiful neighbour, and they fall in love. But the honeymoon gets complicated.Enjoyable noir, with two fascinating leads. Bogart is gruff and smart, sympathetic and overbearing. Grahame is haughty yet supine, and her eyebrows do their thing. Also some unexpected titillation.The plot has a lot of writer as misunderstood hero navel-gazing, plus lame showbiz humour (especially the agent and the drunk Shakespearean actor). Can't say any of the lines really struck home, but the actors work the chemistry. There's a lovely scene at the piano about halfway through that sparks off some confusion in the plot by adding even more to a cast of unnecessary characters, but in the end the emphasis is on the lead actors with a well judged outcome. If only people could get along when they're destined to - howl! Photography is OK, but some great close ups. And the music suits just right.Overall - good genre with great performances. And I just realised where Scarlett Johansson got her inspiration.