Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

'In A Lonely Place (1950)' is a film noir that avoids many of the tropes and conventions that usually come with the genre, though the most basic ones that signify its place within the category are clear and welcome, instead using its sharp script to build upon the central characters as the inciting murder threatens to tear them apart in ways counter to those perhaps expected. It is an achievement that the perspective of the picture slowly switches from Bogart's aggressive screenwriter to Grahame's increasingly cautious love-interest as the scrutiny of the law begins to sow seeds of suspicion into, and put an immense strain on, their relationship. This is done in such a way that the audience only ever knows as much as Grahame and, as such, is never relieved of her nagging thoughts until we're firmly on her side as her new partner's already overbearing demeanour begins to shift to a controlling and borderline abusive one. There are no happy endings here and nothing is romanticised, leading to a tragic piece that ends on a uneasy note of sobering reality. 7/10

In a Lonely Place is an unendearing film-noir murder mystery.The biggest problem with the film is that the main characters are unlikable. Dixon is smug, rude, controlling and beat people, while Laurel is bland and unrealistic. The second biggest problem is that it's suppose to be a murder mystery, yet we are not following the investigation and we know that Dixon is innocent. The crime is resolved just like that and is of no importance, other than its impact on their relationship.

It isn't enough to call Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" a film noir. While it has some of those elements, the movie is more of a commentary on Hollywood's general amorality. Humphrey Bogart's down-on-his-luck screenwriter Dix becomes a suspect in the murder of a woman whom he had recently met, so his neighbor Laurel (Gloria Grahame) gives him an alibi. However, Dix's volatile temper casts doubts on this even for her.What sets the stage is that Dix hasn't had a hit in years, so he's just the type whom the Hollywood execs would throw out face first. And it's unlikely that they'll come to his aid if he gets in trouble. But the tension between Dix and Laurel dominates the story. Far from the widely seen glitz and glamor with which Tinseltown in usually associated, Dix's world is the lonely place.Ray took a different gritty approach to the LA area with "Rebel without a Cause", showing the seething tensions beneath the surface of 1950s optimism. Those are the only movies of his that I've seen, but having seen "In a Lonely Place" I would really like to see his other movies. This mixture of cynicism, romance and torment in a pitiless world makes sure to not turn the characters into bland caricatures. We sympathize with them throughout the movie. Basically, the movie asks what one is to do amid his horrifying position in a heartless setting (in this case Hollywood).Not to be missed.

There are many hidden classics in the noir genre that are waiting to be rediscovered by modern audiences. In a Lonely Place is so contained and concise that it could almost be a stage play, while very nearly being a super-metafictional experience.Bogey plays Dixon Steele (yeah, Dick Steele) a Hollywood screenwriter with a very short temper in need of inspiration and a hit. His latest assignment is to adapt a popular novel but he can't be bothered reading it. Instead he pays a girl to recite the story to him until he gets the gist and can wings it from there. When he sends the girl home she is never seen alive again and Dix is the main suspect.His neighbor Laurel vouches for him, but secretly has doubts about his innocence. They begin a turbulent affair, which is just the inspiration Dix has been looking for and he fires out his script with many changes along the way, though the studio just wanted a straight adaptation. Laurel's suspicion of Dix builds as his rage reaches a critical mass and their relationship begins to buckle under the pressure. This is noir after all. Doom slowly permeates everyone's life and there are never happy endings.The themes of artistic aloneness and alienating Hollywood culture remain timeless to this day. Based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes the first writer of the movie was himself tasked with delivering a straight adaptation but a rewrite deviated from the material and came up with something new. Bogey loved the script and there are many who say that his own propensity for sudden rage made him the perfect actor for the role of Dixon Steele. The acting and connections between the characters give this film a lot of rewatch value. You really get pulled into their world and dark affair. There are a couple of weaknesses though. The score is often intrusive and tonally inappropriate and a few of the sets are disappointingly sparse. It doesn't spoil the atmosphere too much though.In a Lonely Place is most certainly one of my favorite film noirs and will never be lonely sitting on my shelf.