I got exactly NO noir vibe off this story. Additionally, I'm not a screenwriter, but I know I personally could have done better than this. The story is really quite linear, has all the suspense of watching a drawbridge open after you've seen it once already and can't generate any sympathy for anyone aside from, perhaps, the poor hatcheck girl. I get it, though: Grahame and Bogey were big draws...so...ya gotta make it. Maybe the flick's good for reminding us all not have a tolerance for the likes of Dixon Steele.
Review of In a Lonely Place
