In A Lonely Place

Screenwriter Dixon Steele lives up to his name: quick-witted with his mouth as well as his fists, his cynical, world-weary manner is a source of offence. Not exactly the best prerequisites when he is suddenly named as a suspect in a murder case. Although his neighbour provides him with an alibi - and subsequently gets involved in a fling with him - the investigators continue to keep him in their sights ... Humphrey Bogart does what he does best: taking one drag after another and uttering one hard-boiled line after another. The ideal cast in Nicholas Ray's gloomy Hollywood hall of mirrors, in which the director deals with his own failed marriage to Gloria Grahame and the oppressive mood of the McCarthy era. (Florian Widegger)