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In a Lonely Place (1950) was a Film Noir - Drama Film directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by Robert Lord and Henry S. Kesler.

In a Lonely Place was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007.

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Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame find themselves “In a Lonely Place”

By Stephen Reginald on Feb 27, 2024 From Classic Movie Man

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame find themselves “In a Lonely Place” In a Lonely Place (1950) is an American film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Graham. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes published in 1947. ... Read full article


In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 27, 2019 From The Stop Button

Watching the opening titles of In a Lonely Place, I wished the design had allowed for it to appear like it was saying ?Humphrey Bogart in A Lonely Place.? Just because. But it doesn?t. And wouldn?t really be appropriate either as it?s unclear, some ninety minutes later, if Bogart was indeed in a lon... Read full article


In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)

on Jul 27, 2019 From The Stop Button

Watching the opening titles of In a Lonely Place, I wished the design had allowed for it to appear like it was saying ?Humphrey Bogart in A Lonely Place.? Just because. But it doesn?t. And wouldn?t really be appropriate either as it?s unclear, some ninety minutes later, if Bogart was indeed in a lon... Read full article


In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 27, 2019 From The Stop Button

Watching the opening titles of In a Lonely Place, I wished the design had allowed for it to appear like it was saying ?Humphrey Bogart in A Lonely Place.? Just because. But it doesn?t. And wouldn?t really be appropriate either as it?s unclear, some ninety minutes later, if Bogart was indeed in a lon... Read full article


In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)

on Jul 27, 2019 From The Stop Button

Watching the opening titles of In a Lonely Place, I wished the design had allowed for it to appear like it was saying ?Humphrey Bogart in A Lonely Place.? Just because. But it doesn?t. And wouldn?t really be appropriate either as it?s unclear, some ninety minutes later, if Bogart was indeed in a lon... Read full article


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Gloria Grahame and husband/director Nicholas Ray quietly separated during filming, keeping it a secret for fear that one of them would be replaced. Ray slept on the studio set, saying that he needed to work late on preparation for the remainder of the film. It worked and nobody suspected that their marriage was on the rocks.
When Edmund H. North adapted the story, he stuck close to the original source and John Derek was considered for the role of Dix because in the novel he was much younger. North's treatment was not used, and Andrew Solt developed the screenplay with regular input from producer Robert Lord and director Nicholas Ray, and the end result is far different from the source novel. Solt claimed that Humphrey Bogart loved the script so much that he wanted to make it without revisions - Solt retains that the final cut is very close to his script - but further research shows that Ray made regular re-writes, some added on the day of shooting. In fact, only 4 pages of the 140 page script had no revisions.
In her essay "Humphrey and Bogey," Louise Brooks wrote that more than any other role that Humphrey Bogart played, it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closest to the real Bogart she knew.
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