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Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Jeff Donnell, David Bond, June Vincent, John Mitchum, William Ching, Charles Cane (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Als eine Bekannte des Autors Dixon Steele ermordet wird, ist er der Hauptverdächtige, denn er war am Abend ihres Todes noch mit ihr zusammen. Seine Nachbarin Laurel gibt ihm ein Alibi, denn sie will ihn schützen – und mehr sein als nur seine Nachbarin. Dixon Steele ist ein erfolgloser Drehbuchautor. Eines Abends beauftragt ihn sein Agent eine Buchadaption zu schreiben, die ein großer Erfolg zu werden verspricht. Da Dix den Roman nicht lesen will, bittet er einfach Mildred, eine junge Frau, die er an der Garderobe eines Nachtclubs kennenlernt, ihm den Inhalt zu erzählen. Sie begleitet ihn nachts zu seiner Wohnung und schildert ihm die Handlung des Buches, bevor sie nach Hause geht. Am nächsten Tag jedoch ist Mildred tot und Dix ist der Letzte, der sie noch lebend gesehen hat. Seine Situation scheint aussichtslos, bis seine schöne Nachbarin Laurel Gray sich bei der Polizei meldet und für ihn aussagt. Die zwei werden ein Liebespaar und scheinen glücklich. Doch Dix' Verhalten verändert sich plötzlich und Laurel ängstigt sich immer mehr vor seiner zunehmend gewalttätigen Art. Ist Dix etwa doch Mildreds Mörder? (arte)
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"I love you, but I'm afraid of you." I completely understand this line hearing it from sweet Gray’s lips. I also love Bogart and wouldn’t like to meet him in a dark alley. In a Lonely Place was shot in 1950 – a year which brought among other things the now classic satires concerning the situation in American show business: Sunset Boulevard and All about Eve. At the beginning it seems that this movie is going the same direction. The behind the scenes of Hollywood which serves not only as a cheap backdrop that makes the plot more attractive seem ideal for that. But it doesn’t happen (even though the filmmakers couldn’t resist a couple of digs). In the end it is “just" a fabulous study of a relationship. The cornerstone of the movie is a great screenplay, very daring in its day and very disturbing (even now). But this couldn’t have worked without the excellent actors and the famous chemistry between them. And there is so much of it that I honestly don’t know how it is possible that the celluloid never dissolved during projection. Even they way the main characters looked at each other when they meet at the police station... You don’t see things like that on the screen anymore. Gloria Grahame wraps you around her finger thanks to her charms in a matter of seconds and her acting makes her more than an equal partner to Bogart and one of the best performances of his career. He is so chillingly precise throughout the whole movie in his role of an intelligent beast that you can’t help thinking that he is playing himself a bit. The final ten minutes when the acting performances are climaxing hand in hand with the screenplay until the inevitable finale are a chapter in themselves. And it’s not only the ending where the quality of this movie lies. Not at all, the film is great all the way through the whole hour and a half of its running time.
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The great Humphrey Bogart carries on his shoulders this at first glance B-movie crime drama, which surprisingly has a good and suspenseful (read unclear) plot revolving around a man who may or may not be crazy. Humphrey played him so perfectly that at times you'll genuinely shiver at how he behaves and acts.
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"I've killed dozens of people… in pictures." A cruel romance with spikes of sarcasm that jab at Hollywood's customs, paired with a crime plot designed to amplify doubt. Allegedly Bogart's best performance, perhaps because he was playing himself. He revealed two unusual sides of his personality: the comedic one, where at home he subtly mimics the actions of the modest coat-check girl Mildred, and the terrifying one, when his fuse ignites and people around him begin to fear him. After all, the poster with his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-like expression speaks for itself.
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