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Writers:
Andrew Solt (screenplay)
Edmund H. North (adaptation)
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Release Date:
17 May 1950 (USA) more
Tagline:
THE BOGART SUSPENSE PICTURE WITH THE SURPRISE FINISH - (original poster)
Plot:
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts... full summary | full synopsis
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One of Nicholas Ray's best movies with brilliant performances from Bogart and Grahame. more (96 total)

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Also Known As:
Behind the Mask (USA) (working title)
Late at Night (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Norway:16 | USA:Approved (certificate #14256) | UK:PG (video rating) (1990) | UK:A (original rating) (passed with cuts) | UK:PG (tv rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18

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In her essay "Humphrey and Bogey," Louise Brooks wrote that more than any other role that Humphrey Bogart played, it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closest to the real Bogart she knew. more
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Continuity: When Dixon supplies drinks for him and Mildred, we see him uncaps a bottle and spills in the glass. Between cuts the bottle appears capped before we see him capping it. In the subsequent shots he moves the same bottle from one place to another uncapped/capped. more
Quotes:
Frances Randolph: Do you look down on all women or just the ones you know?
Dixon Steele: I was pretty nice to you.
Frances Randolph: No, not to me. But you were pretty nice.
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Featured in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) (TV) more
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I Hadn't Anyone Till You more

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One of Nicholas Ray's best movies with brilliant performances from Bogart and Grahame., 6 February 2004
Author: Infofreak from Perth, Australia

Nicholas Ray is a director who has almost been forgotten these days, despite making brilliant movies like 'They Live By Night', 'On Dangerous Ground', 'Johnny Guitar' and 'Rebel Without A Cause', and numbering Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders among his fans (the latter even gave him a small role in his 'The American Friend'). 'In A Lonely Place' could be Ray's best. It's a fascinating movie that mixes drama, suspense and romance in a very interesting way. You could call it Noir I suppose, but it's a very difficult movie to tie down. Humphrey Bogart plays a bitter, hard drinking and frequently violent screen writer who becomes a murder suspect when a young girl (Martha Stewart) is killed. Gloria Grahame ('Crossfire', 'The Big Set Up') is a neighbour who supplies him with an alibi. This odd way of meeting leads into a romance. At first everything is wonderful, and Bogart is even writing again, but bit by bit Grahame starts to see his dark side and begins to fear him, even suspecting that he may have been involved in the murder after all. I don't think I've ever seen Bogart better. It's a terrific performance, and while his character can be charming at times he's also surprisingly unlikeable and intense (we are told he broke an old girlfriend's nose, for example. Imagine Mel Gibson or Brad Pitt doing that in a movie today and still being the romantic lead!). Grahame pulls off a difficult role too, being torn between love and terror. They both make a great team. Such a pity they never worked together after this. I also liked Frank Lovejoy ('House Of Wax', 'The Hitch-Hiker') who plays Bogart's cop buddy. 'In A Lonely Place' is a movie not to be overlooked. I thought it was superb entertainment.

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