In a Lonely Place

In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogarts Santana Productions. The script was adapted by Edmund North from the 1947 novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes.

Dixon Dix Steele Humphrey Bogart is a downonhisluck Hollywood screenwriter who has not had a hit since before the war. While driving to meet his agent, Mel Lippman Art Smith, at a nightclub, Dixs explosive temper is revealed at a stoplight along the way in a confrontation with another motorist that almost becomes violent.At the nightclub, Mel cajoles him to adapt a book for a movie. The hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson Martha Stewart, is engrossed in reading it and asks if she can finish, since she only has a few pages left. Dix has a second violent outburst when a young director badmouths Dixs friend Charlie Robert Warwick, a washedup actor. ........

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