{"id":13552,"date":"2020-05-08T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13552"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:59:37","slug":"in-a-lonely-place-1950-nicholas-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13552","title":{"rendered":"In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bogart is given the porn-star name Dix Steele, a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who happens to be the last guy to see murdered coat-check girl Martha Stewart (not the rich felon, the actress from Daisy Kenyon<\/em>) – other than the murderer, of course, which the cops suspect Dix of being, since he gets so fired up about the details of the case.<\/p>\n

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Dix’s alibi is neighbor Gloria Grahame (The Big Heat<\/a><\/em>). She’s hiding out from her violent ex, and as the pressure mounts, with the murder suspicion and Dix’s new screenplay and his general manic-depression, ex-soldier Dix begins to act paranoid and violent as well. He turns on Gloria at the end, and she leaves him for good. Between this and Bigger Than Life<\/a><\/em>, Ray seems very good at portraying men with manias.<\/p>\n

Art and Gloria:<\/em>
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Bogie’s old war buddy Brub (Frank Lovejoy, useless cop in House of Wax<\/a><\/em>) is police, walks the line between friendship and suspicion (as does Gloria). He works for Captain Carl Reid (of the same year’s Fuller Brush Girl<\/em> – a profession mentioned by Grahame in this movie), who has it in for Dix until the dead girl’s mustachey boyfriend confesses to the crime. Art Smith (of Ride The Pink Horse<\/em> from the same novelist) is Dix’s agent, at least until he casually fires Dix for slapping him. And speaking of the source novel, it’s fun that this film, reportedly a very loose adaptation of the book, is about a screenwriter writing a very loose adaptation of a book. Also good: the coat-check girl in this black and white movie telling Dix “I do hope it’s gonna be in technicolor.”<\/p>\n

Brub and his wife Jeff, re-enacting the murder:<\/em>
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The earliest Ray picture I’ve seen, unless you count my notes saying I watched They Live By Night<\/em> a couple decades ago on TCM, which I do not recall. Good, dark movie, but most importantly it seems to be the inspiration for lyrics from the Versus song “Morning Glory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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