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# In a Lonely Place [DVD] [2003]

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Product Description Academy Award(r) winner Humphrey Bogart (Best Actor, The African Queen, 1951) stars as Dixon Steele, a down-on-his-luck studio scribe who reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. Fortunately for him, his sexy neighbor, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame), who is physically attracted to the writer, lies to the police by providing Steele with an air-tight alibi. But is he truly innocent of Mildred's death or is Laurel destined to become the next victim of Steele's violent temper? desertcart.co.uk Review One of the classics of the noir psychological thriller, In a Lonely Place is one of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances. He is almost unbearably intense as Dixon Steele, a screenwriter with high standards and a nasty temper who finds himself under suspicion when Mildred, a hat-check girl he knows, is found murdered. Immediately he gets an alibi from a neighbour, Laurel, and equally quickly, he recognises that this is a woman who meets his standards: the question is, as suspicion of his involvement in Mildred's death continues, can he make himself meet hers? This is a wonderful study in trust and suspicion and the limits of love; Bogart's performance is impressive simply because he is prepared to go well over the limits of our sympathy in the name of emotional truth. The scene where he explains imaginatively to a cop and his wife how the murder might have happened is a spine-chilling, creepy portrait of amoral artistic brilliance. Gloria Grahame is equally fine as the woman who lets herself love him, for a while. On the DVD: In a Lonely Place comes with an excellent documentary in which Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential) explains the importance of the film to him and discusses its place in the work of Bogart and the director Nicholas Ray; there is also a quick interesting documentary about the restoration and digitisation of classic films. The film is presented with a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and with restored Dolby Surround sound that does full justice to the film's snappy dialogue and the moody George Antheil score. --Roz Kaveney

Review: "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me" - EXCEPTIONNAL! This is a great film noir, surprising, shocking, even disturbing, with two great actors at the top of their game. Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS. Dixon "Dix" Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a Hollywood screenwriter. His talent is not questioned but he is also a rather unpleasant person and has a history of antagonizing people - also, he is going through a deep depression, which put his professional life in even more trouble. His loyal agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), struggles more and more to find work for him. At the beginning of the film Steele catches a break - he receives a commission to adapt a recent bestseller for a high budget movie. However, being too lazy to read the book himself he pays a girl working in the restaurant where he had his dinner, to come with him home and tell him the story, which she seems to be very familiar with. The girl, a certain Mildred Atkinson (Martha Stewart), tempted by the promise of receiving one hundred dollars, accepts. When entering the appartment Steele and Mildred say hello to the somehow arrogant woman who just moved into the same building (Gloria Grahame), then the door closes behind them... and I will say nothing more about the story. However, this being a film noir made by Nicholas Ray, you can be certain that trouble will follow... This is a highly original, very surprising film noir, in the same time very similar to most of other movies of this genre and in the same time quite different. The scenario is very strong and the director used it with optimum efficiency. The story keeps the viewer guessing and on the edge until the final three minutes and when the dark mystery is finally solved, things get even more poignant, until the ultimate line, just before the credits. This is one of the very best performances by Bogart. His character is totally different from his other "film noir" heroes and anti-heroes, but I will say no more, to avoid spoilers. Gloria Grahame SHINES in this film, both by beauty and by her talent, exploring all the possibilities the scenario offered to her. Actors in supporting roles are equally excellent, Martha Stewart - cute like a button by the way - very much included. Stewart didn't make much of a career, as she withdrew from acting in 1952 to devote herself to her three kids, but it seems that she and her husband had a very happy life, until his death in 1982. Remarkably, in August 2016 Martha Stewart, currently aged 93, is still with us. Special mention goes also to Art Smith, who plays the incredibly loyal agent and Robert Warwick, who plays a washed out actor - they are Steel's very last friends... This is a very, very good movie, harder and more difficult than many other "film noirs", but really reamarkable. I will definitely keep the DVD for another viewing. TO SEE ABSOLUTELY!
Review: an interesting, quite bold film - This is a stagey film, not always convincing but certainly watchable and interesting in that it appears to deal in a rudimentary way with what is probably post-traumatic stress disorder. Dixon Steele, played on the whole convincingly by Humphrey Bogart, is a talented screenwriter who has lost his way somewhat but is faced with a new script which may enable him to break back into the big time. A girl he meets is murdered and it is thought he may be responsible. He meets Laurel Grey (Gloria Grahame, who is very good in this film, with her sexy half-smile and her expressive eybrows) and they fall in love. But he has dark and frightening changes of mood and can clearly be dangerous when he becomes violent, as he does. The murder is almost incidental in this film. It is his relationship with Gray which is central, as, infatuated as she is by him, she becomes increasingly anxious about his dark side. We know that Steele has been a respected officer in the War, but this, we infer, has taken its toll, so that he can turn even on close friends - hard-bitten as he is, later he feels remorse and does what he can to put things right. I don't want to reveal the ending, but it is one of the film's strengths. On the other hand, some of the dialogue is clunky, there is some poor editing and a good part of the film is very obviously made on-set, which helps to account for its staginess. Bogart is always very watchable - he has terrific screen presence - but this is not his best role. There's a pretty strong supporting cast and, as I said, Gloria Grahame, whose husband, Nicholas Ray, directed the film, is very good.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B00007JGKS |
| Actors  | Carl Benton Reid, Frank Lovejoy, Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart, Martha Stewart |
| Aspect Ratio  | 4:3 - 1.33:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 29,047 in DVD & Blu-ray ( See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray ) 1,259 in Romance (DVD & Blu-ray) 2,586 in Crime (DVD & Blu-ray) 3,604 in Thriller (DVD & Blu-ray) |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (692) |
| Director  | Nicholas Ray |
| Dubbed:  | French, Italian, Spanish |
| Is discontinued by manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 5035822065635 |
| Language  | English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) |
| Media Format  | Subtitled |
| Number of discs  | 1 |
| Package Dimensions  | 19 x 13.6 x 1.5 cm; 0.28 g |
| Producers  | Robert Lord |
| Release date  | 27 Jan. 2003 |
| Run time  | 1 hour and 29 minutes |
| Studio  | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Subtitles:  | Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |

## Product Details

- **Format:** Subtitled
- **Genre:** Drama
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 29 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me"
*by D***K on 10 August 2016*

EXCEPTIONNAL! This is a great film noir, surprising, shocking, even disturbing, with two great actors at the top of their game. Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS. Dixon "Dix" Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a Hollywood screenwriter. His talent is not questioned but he is also a rather unpleasant person and has a history of antagonizing people - also, he is going through a deep depression, which put his professional life in even more trouble. His loyal agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), struggles more and more to find work for him. At the beginning of the film Steele catches a break - he receives a commission to adapt a recent bestseller for a high budget movie. However, being too lazy to read the book himself he pays a girl working in the restaurant where he had his dinner, to come with him home and tell him the story, which she seems to be very familiar with. The girl, a certain Mildred Atkinson (Martha Stewart), tempted by the promise of receiving one hundred dollars, accepts. When entering the appartment Steele and Mildred say hello to the somehow arrogant woman who just moved into the same building (Gloria Grahame), then the door closes behind them... and I will say nothing more about the story. However, this being a film noir made by Nicholas Ray, you can be certain that trouble will follow... This is a highly original, very surprising film noir, in the same time very similar to most of other movies of this genre and in the same time quite different. The scenario is very strong and the director used it with optimum efficiency. The story keeps the viewer guessing and on the edge until the final three minutes and when the dark mystery is finally solved, things get even more poignant, until the ultimate line, just before the credits. This is one of the very best performances by Bogart. His character is totally different from his other "film noir" heroes and anti-heroes, but I will say no more, to avoid spoilers. Gloria Grahame SHINES in this film, both by beauty and by her talent, exploring all the possibilities the scenario offered to her. Actors in supporting roles are equally excellent, Martha Stewart - cute like a button by the way - very much included. Stewart didn't make much of a career, as she withdrew from acting in 1952 to devote herself to her three kids, but it seems that she and her husband had a very happy life, until his death in 1982. Remarkably, in August 2016 Martha Stewart, currently aged 93, is still with us. Special mention goes also to Art Smith, who plays the incredibly loyal agent and Robert Warwick, who plays a washed out actor - they are Steel's very last friends... This is a very, very good movie, harder and more difficult than many other "film noirs", but really reamarkable. I will definitely keep the DVD for another viewing. TO SEE ABSOLUTELY!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ an interesting, quite bold film
*by H***8 on 6 May 2013*

This is a stagey film, not always convincing but certainly watchable and interesting in that it appears to deal in a rudimentary way with what is probably post-traumatic stress disorder. Dixon Steele, played on the whole convincingly by Humphrey Bogart, is a talented screenwriter who has lost his way somewhat but is faced with a new script which may enable him to break back into the big time. A girl he meets is murdered and it is thought he may be responsible. He meets Laurel Grey (Gloria Grahame, who is very good in this film, with her sexy half-smile and her expressive eybrows) and they fall in love. But he has dark and frightening changes of mood and can clearly be dangerous when he becomes violent, as he does. The murder is almost incidental in this film. It is his relationship with Gray which is central, as, infatuated as she is by him, she becomes increasingly anxious about his dark side. We know that Steele has been a respected officer in the War, but this, we infer, has taken its toll, so that he can turn even on close friends - hard-bitten as he is, later he feels remorse and does what he can to put things right. I don't want to reveal the ending, but it is one of the film's strengths. On the other hand, some of the dialogue is clunky, there is some poor editing and a good part of the film is very obviously made on-set, which helps to account for its staginess. Bogart is always very watchable - he has terrific screen presence - but this is not his best role. There's a pretty strong supporting cast and, as I said, Gloria Grahame, whose husband, Nicholas Ray, directed the film, is very good.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ While she loved me
*by K***D on 28 April 2013*

Nicholas Ray didnt make happy or optimistic films but, as the emerging French film makers of the fifties and sixties recognised, he was one of Hollywood's most fascinating and least predictable directors. Some of his films are classics, however little known one or two still are to a mass public: The Lusty Men, Bigger Than Life, On Dangerous Ground, They Live By Night, Johnny Guitar ... and of course Rebel Without a Cause. Often they involve one person against an uncomprehending world. In a Lonely Place is one of his best, most artistically successful films, as well as one of his saddest and bleakest, though it's not without a certain laconic humour. Bogart {how lucky Ray was to secure the fifty-year-old actor} plays misanthropic screenwriter Dixon Steele, a tortured man as brittle as his name. The wonderful Gloria Grahame is the woman who falls for him, bringing him a certain erratic peace of mind and sense of purpose ~ not to mention the other less cerebral things we assume she brings with her across the small courtyard that separates them. The two strike the brightest sparks off each other since Bacall asked Bogie if he knew how to whistle. They look like they had a genuine rapport too {unlike the total lack of that commodity between him and Audrey Hepburn three years later}. At the time, the director was in the last stages of his affair with Grahame, and Bogie & Bacall were friends with them, so it must have been an interesting shoot. A murder is committed soon after the film starts, and Steele is prime suspect. He could have done it, though it seems unlikely. Trouble is, he has a violent streak, set off by the slightest thing. Gloria doesn't know this when she meets him, but soon finds out. Bogart was never better. He might have been perfect as Rick in Casablanca, and a fine Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, as well as finally winning an overdue Oscar for his touching riverboat man a year later, but this is the film that, despite playing a tense, prickly man, living on his nerves, brings out his most relaxed performance of all. As Curtis Hanson points out in the excellent extra short feature included on this DVD, he hardly appears to be acting at all. The supporting cast are unusually good too, while Ray's moody direction is just right, with great photography by Burnett Guffey. It's not quite a film noir, coming at the end of the 'noir decade' but it fits into that mould, while looking forward to the more naturalistic films to come in the fifties. Gloria Grahame was never lovelier or more credible in a part, less of the femme fatale this time, after playing so many, and Bogart finds himself, in more ways than one, in a very lonely place indeed. An essential classic, and a great little film.

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