In A Lonely Place (1950)

We’re in the final stretch of our noir month, which we’ve dubbed THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR (because it sounds cool). To say that we’ve hit up some classic heavy hitters is putting it mildly and it won’t be any different in this final week as we hit up our second Nicholas Ray directed feature this month as well as our second Humphrey Bogart feature. Dix Steel (yes, that’s his name) is a curmudgeon Hollywood writer who gets investigated for a murder and he ain’t doing himself any favors being so flippant about it. His new girlfriend and alibi (played by Gloria Grahame) loves him dearly but when Dix’s quick anger and violent tendencies come to the surface, she realizes it might not be just his cold charm. Maybe he fucking killed somebody! What darkness lurks under the surface in Nicholas Ray’s 1950 classic, ‘IN A LONELY PLACE”. Dix sure doesn’t know how to chill.  He seems to openly fetishize violence in front of people that are literally investigating him. Is this guy just an intense genre screenwriter or a stone cold killer? Can this relationship survive either way? Nicholas Ray’s marriage to Gloria Grahame during this time sure didn’t. Of course you can find this online and I hope this link works because it’s one definitely worth checking out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybheWgXr6Po

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