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In a Lonely Place (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Mystery & Suspense/Film Noir, Mystery & Suspense |
Format | Widescreen |
Contributor | Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Nicholas Ray, Humphrey Bogart |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 33 minutes |
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When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca), in a revelatory, vulnerable performance becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbor (The Big Heat s Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. The emotionally charged In a Lonely Place, freely adapted from a Dorothy B. Hughes thriller, is a brilliant, turbulent mix of suspenseful noir and devastating melodrama, fueled by powerhouse performances. An uncompromising tale of two people desperate to love yet struggling with their demons and each other, this is one of the greatest films of the 1950s, and a benchmark in the career of the classic Hollywood auteur Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause).
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring film scholar Dana Polan
- I m a Stranger Here Myself, a 1975 documentary about director Nicholas Ray, slightly condensed for this release
- New interview with biographer Vincent Curcio about actor Gloria Grahame
- Piece from 2002 featuring filmmaker Curtis Hanson
- Radio adaptation from 1948 of the original Dorothy B. Hughes novel, broadcast on the program Suspense
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 2619
- Director : Nicholas Ray
- Media Format : Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 33 minutes
- Release date : May 10, 2016
- Actors : Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B01BUX7Z0I
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #29,525 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,749 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Dixon Steels (Humphrey Bogart), a past screenwriter, takes home a young woman he met at a bar late at night, calling it a book reading. However, perhaps because of the age difference between him and the young woman, he gets a headache and sends her away, giving her a suitable excuse. The next day, Steels is awakened early in the morning by a detective he knows and learns that the young woman from last night has been murdered and that he is the suspect, and so begins the story of a common detective mystery, but for some reason the police assume him to be the killer without any evidence from the beginning. He also has a neurotic streak, and when he is attacked by others, he becomes paranoid and violent. On the other hand, he is now an unsuccessful screenwriter, but at the end of the story, we are told that he was once a great screenwriter, as his new work is shown to be well received.
Generally speaking, "At the time, the United States was in the midst of the McCarthyist Red Purge, and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the principal organ of the Red Purge, issued subpoenas solely on the basis of suspicion and interrogated 10 people who refused to testify or be subpoenaed based on their fundamental rights guaranteed under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The HUAC interrogated ten people who had been The ten, known as the Hollywood Ten, were convicted of contempt of Congress in 1948, appealed to the Supreme Court but lost, and were sentenced to six months to a year in prison in 1950." It is said that.
The year 1950, when "In a Lonely Place" was released, was the very year that the Hollywood Ten were sentenced.
Why did Nicholas Ray choose a screenwriter as his protagonist? Why did the police unilaterally frame Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart), once a successful screenwriter, as the killer simply because he was suspicious and without adequate investigation? The answer they suggest is one. They are Nicholas Ray's scathing critique of the red-hunt whirlwind.
Of course, that is not all. Director Ray seems to be self-deprecatingly mocking the "irredeemable Hollywood" by depicting, albeit implicitly, the folly of those who are bound by past glories.
Humphrey Bogart meets and is reborn with a new muse, Gloria Graheim, and despite writing a new script at a furious pace, ultimately loses her through his own paranoia.
This teaches us that no matter how fortunate we may be, a new destiny will not begin unless we are determined to transform ourselves to become a new person. Perhaps Director Ray wanted Hollywood to have the same determination.
IN A LONELY PLACE concerns an almost washed up screenwriter, Dixon Steele, played by Humphrey Bogart, who gets a chance to adapt a somewhat windy best selling "epic novel" into a screenplay as the basis for what hopefully will be a popular film. These words are not spoken in the film but it looks like this could be Dix Steele's last chance at a financially as well as artistically successful screenplay. Dix has a few problems, mainly drinking and a flashpoint temper that has led to a few violent episodes in the past including some involving the police. And now he is visibly aging but not necesarily mellowing.
In truth, Dix is not enamored with the bestseller he has been given to adapt and when a enthusiastic checkroom girl named Mildred Atkinson , played by a Martha Stewart, gushes over the book and the possiblilty of a movie based on it, Dix gives her the job of coming back to his apartment to read the tome to him so he might have some idea of the book without exerting any undue effort.
So the check room girl breaks her date with her banker boyfriend and goes with Dix to his courtyard apartment to dig into the book. Unfortunately things don't work out too well and Dix gives the girl some money for cabfare home and looking bone tired, says he's going to bed.
Next thing he knows it's 5 AM and an old army buddy, now a plainclothes detective, well played by Frank Lovejoy, is ringing his doorbell wanting to talk with him about Mildred Atkinson. It turns out she was murdered before she could get a cab and Dix was the last known person to have seen her alive.
While being questioned at the station house Dix answers to a police question that one person did see him when he said goodnight to Mildred Atkinson, a woman who lives across the courtyard. As it turns out the woman,
Laurel Gray, played by Gloria Grahame, has taken notice of Dix and is aware that he is a screenwriter.
As the film progresses so does the relationship between Dixon Steele and Laurel Gray. They both seem to get along well and she helps him with the screenplay, which needs a lot of help apparently.
At times Dix forgets everything of the outside world, his mind is strictly involved with his writing for the first time in many years. A lot of that has to do with Laurel's keeping his mind on the track of the story.
But occassionally another violent incident will occur, sometimes with Laurel there to witness it.
In the meantime the police investigation seems to be progressing slowly if at all and Dix is still a primary suspect. Sometimes Laurel can't help but wonder with the evidence of Dix's sometimes violent nature if he's the one who killed MIldred Atkinson.
In fact, that's the noirish part of the story that I enjoy most, the audience is left wondering if Dixon Steele can't control himself with "these kids in their cut-down cars" how would Dix react to an actual turndown from a young pretty girl? Especially after a couple of drinks, would he take it as a personal insult, something that had to be avenged immediately?
That's the crux of the decision that Laurel has to make about Dix and herself.....and the decision the audience has to make about Dixon Steele and the entire story of IN A LONELY PLACE.
It is a romance as well as a murder mystery with plenty of noir trappings thrown in, not just to confuse the characters, but to hold the audience in a gloomy cloud of suspense for as long as possible. And a fine job by
everyone involved, IN A LONELY PLACE is a memorable film, one that will hold your interest, to say the least, from beginning to end.
"I was born when she kissed me.
I died when she left me.
I lived a few weeks while she loved me."
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele in
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950).
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Humphrey BOGART est parfait dans le rôle d'un scénariste sujet à des crises de violence extrême face à la talentueuse et troublante Gloria GRAHAME qui cherche par tous les moyens à le faire se détacher de ses démons (pour une fois elle ne joue pas le rôle d'une garce).
Ce film est assurément le chef d'œuvre de Nicholas RAY.
Grande qualité du DVD tant au niveau de l'image que du son. VOST français. Très intéressant bonus.