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In a Lonely Place
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Overview

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Director:
Nicholas Ray
Writers:
Dorothy B. Hughes (story)
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
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Classic Bogart, classic script, classic noir more
US TV Schedule:
Thur. July 2310:45 AMTCM   

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Behind the Mask (USA) (working title)
Late at Night (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Norway:16 | USA:Approved (certificate #14256) | UK:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18

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In the original ending and the final shooting script, Dix actually did kill Laurel in the heat of their argument. Martha comes and discovers the body as Dix silently types his script. Later his detective friend comes to arrest him, Dix says that he's almost done with his script. There is a close-up of the last page of the script, echoing the words Dix said in the car to Laurel: "I was born when she kissed me, I died when she left me, I live a few weeks while she loved me." It is said that this scene was filmed, but before it could be shown to a test audience, director Nicholas Ray shot a new ending because he hated the scripted ending--he didn't want to think that violence was the only way out of this situation. So he cleared everyone off the set, even Lauren Bacall, who was visiting her husband Humphrey Bogart, except for Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Art Smith--who ended up not being used in the final scene--and the camera and sound men, and they improvised the ending that is seen in the final cut. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Dixon and Laurel are in the car, the window glass of his left hand-side is up. But after he stops the car, in the shots from the left, the window glass disappears. more
Quotes:
Dixon Steele: It was his story against mine, but of course, I told my story better. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Edge of Outside (2006) more
Soundtrack:
I Hadn't Anyone Till You more

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Classic Bogart, classic script, classic noir, 11 March 2004
10/10
Author: CountZaroff from Glasgow, Scotland

This is one of my all time favourite films, and (alongside the obvious - Casablanca, Maltese Falcon etc) my favourite Bogart.

The script is smart, witty and cynical, just like a typical Bogart character. But in this film Bogart plays probably his darkest character.

In some of the scenes with Gloria Graeme he's at his smooth, wisecracking, slightly irritable best, but in the moments where the anger and the fog of despair descends he is a more threatening character than in any of his other leading man roles.

The cynical, darker aspects of this film just go to highlight how few contemporary films are prepared to be so bleak.

Despite the fact that the plot is ostensibly a 'did he do it?' crime story, this is largely inconsequential to the psychological character and relationship study that is the central concern of the film.

If you like a cracking script with sharp performances, with all kinds of deep psychological observations on love and loneliness to be read into it, in the best noir tradition, this is the film for you.

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