Nicholas Ray’s legendary, bitterly melodramatic noir thriller presents Humphrey Bogart in an unusual role, playing a darkly charming Hollywood screenwriter with violent tendencies whose only alibi for a brutal murder comes from the attractive woman next door. A seminal film of the 1950s, In a Lonely Place was released the same year as Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard and Mankiewicz’s All About Eve – two more tales of disillusionment with American show business.