In a Lonely Place [Criterion Collection]

In a Lonely Place [Criterion Collection]

Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart
, Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame
, Frank Lovejoy
Frank Lovejoy
, Carl Benton Reid
Carl Benton Reid
Nicholas Ray
In a Lonely Place [Criterion Collection]

In a Lonely Place [Criterion Collection]

Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart
, Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame
, Frank Lovejoy
Frank Lovejoy
, Carl Benton Reid
Carl Benton Reid
Nicholas Ray

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Overview

"Nicholas Ray directed this brooding melodrama that is part Freudian character study and part anti-Hollywood screed. Humphrey Bogart has one of his finest roles as weary and hard-drinking screenwriter Dixon Steele, who hasn't been able to write a hit screenplay for years. It has been rumored that he had beaten up his former girlfriend and has a bad reputation for getting into fights. His agent, Mel Lippmann (Art Smith) gets him an assignment to adapt a novel. Dixon doesn't want to read the book so he asks hat check girl Mildred Atkinson (Martha Stewart), who has read the book, to come over to his apartment to tell him the story. After she relates the tale to him, he sends her to a taxi stand. The next morning he is informed by police detective Brub Nicolai (Frank Lovejoy) that Mildred was strangled and thrown from a moving car. Because Dixon shows no emotion when he is told of the murder, police captain Lochner (Carl Benton Reid) thinks Dixon is the killer. But Dixon's neighbor, aspiring actress Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame) vouches for Dixon, saying that she saw Mildred leave the apartment alone. Attracted to Laurel, Dixon and Laurel become lovers and Dixon tows the line --he stops drinking and starts writing. But the on-going investigation puts a damper on the relationship. Finally, feeling he is being hounded, Dixon reverts to his violent tendencies. Laurel, frightened of Dixon, agrees when Dixon proposes marriage to her, but she is secretly planning to arrange a flight to New York to escape Dixon and the fetid Hollywood atmosphere."

Product Details

Release Date: 05/10/2016
UPC: 0715515176811
Original Release: 1950
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:33:00
Sales rank: 10,874

Special Features

New 2k digital restoration ; 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

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Humphrey Bogart Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame Laurel Gray
Frank Lovejoy Brub Nicolai
Carl Benton Reid Capt. Lochner
Art Smith Mel Lippman
Jeff Donnell Sylvia Nicolai
Martha Stewart Mildred Atkinson
Robert Warwick Charlie Waterman
Morris Ankrum Lloyd Barnes
William Ching Ted Barton
Steven Geray Paul
Hadda Brooks Singer,Actor
George Antheil Composer

Technical Credits
Nicholas Ray Director
Humphrey Bogart Executive Producer
Robert Lord Producer
Andrew Solt Screenwriter
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