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Very well executed

best movie i've ever seen.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

While ostensibly a mystery film, the movie is wholly dedicated to relationship of Bogart and Graham's characters and that's a relationship we watch slowly decay in a captivating way for a good half of the film. Prone to anger, paranoia, whatever else neurosis, this is a portrait of two people who are ultimately unable to love, or at least maintain a relationship. Hence they both live "In A Lonely Place" living in the world but unable to make intimate contact with it.The acting and cinematography is beautiful, and the script. The direction (by Nicolas Ray, who had directed Bogart before) and script are both great.It's a haunting, striking, dark, and indeed - lonely - film.

The first half was about whether Bogart was accused of murdering the waitress he took home to his house that night. Then we don't get an answer as to who committed the murder and the second half is this love interest between him and this other girl that doesn't go anywhere either. I'm confused.

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.

Fantastic in The Big Sleep and uber cool in The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart pushed the envelope on his acting range with In A Lonely Place. Its easily his best performance out of a career of great performances.Bogart plays Dick Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter who is on the verge of being washed up, after not having had a box office success in years. He is still well respected though, producers still want to hire him and some very glamorous leading ladies are desperate to speak his lines. However his career is harmed by having a reputation of violence and disharmony.After crossing paths with a future young murder victim, he becomes suspected of being the man responsible. This dilemma threatens to ruin the relationship with the woman that loves him, played by Gloria Grahame. While she is initially supportive of him she too begins also to suspect him.Its a gripping tale with complex characterisations, with some of the best acting ever in this type of film. Its a timely film to be rediscovered with domestic violence being a current topic too.