In a Lonely Place

(1950)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 681 votes

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Romance, Mystery

Year: 1950

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Nicholas Ray

Cast: Хамфри Богарт, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, William Ching

Plot

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt, and Steele's inner demons come between them?