Humphrey Bogart is magnificent as a tough Hollywood screenwriter who is romantically involved with a gorgeous actress, Gloria Grahame,meanwhile he's under suspicion of killing of another woman.This is a fascinating psychological thriller which takes Bogey's screen persona and turn him to show the dangerous undertones which could destroy such a man.¨Bogie¨makes mythical stuff of the violent, volatile and two-fisted writer.Bogart's brooding ,male animal intensity brought him rave reviews for this film.Here he is an unlikeable,angry urban male with smooth-talking charmer who erupts into sudden violence.Bogart'd done it all and had it all done to him,he's the patron soul of film noir:High Sierra,Maltese Falcon,Big sleep,Key Largo, Knock on any door and of course, In a lonely place.Gloria Grahame was a female icon of 1950 film noir,Grahame custom mingled vulnerability,sensuality and emotional volatility to craft a remarkable string of flawed characters :Crossfire,Sudden fear,Big heat,Human desire ,Naked alibi, and specially ,In a lonely place. The picture is well directed by Nicholas Ray(at the time married with Grahame).The highlights of Ray include three pretty unusual films noir¨A woman's secret¨and two movies with Bogart ¨Knock on any door¨with a rebel young John Derek and this one. Excellent cinematography by Burnett Guffey,he along with John Alton and Nicholas Musuruka are the fundamental artificers of the special atmosphere of the films noir.This superb movie became itself one of the finest memorable and known entry of the genre.
Review of In a Lonely Place
