In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, and produced for Bogart's Santana Productions. The releasing studio was Columbia Pictures. The script was adapted by Edmund North from a novel by Dorothy Hughes.
Bogart stars in the film as Dixon Steele, a down-on-his-luck and possibly psychopathic screenwriter. Grahame co-stars as Laurel Gray, a neighbor at Bogart's apartment complex who falls under his spell. Beyond its surface plot of confused identity and tormented lust, the film is a mordant comment on Hollywood mores and the pitfalls of celebrity and near-celebrity, in much the same vein as two other more widely-publicized American films released that same year, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Joseph Mankiewicz's All About Eve.
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