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Product Identifiers
PublisherBFI Publishing
ISBN-100851703607
ISBN-139780851703602
eBay Product ID (ePID)935093
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn a Lonely Place
Number of Pages72 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicFilm / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts, History
AuthorDana B. Polan
Book SeriesBfi Film Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight5 oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal791.4372
Synopsis"I was born when she kissed me; lived a few short weeks while she loved me; I died when she left me." These bittersweet lines fromIn a Lonely Placeare a fitting epitaph for the doomed romance at the center of this powerful Hollywood drama. Humphrey Bogart, in one of his most memorable performances, plays Dix, the hard-bitten and cynical screenwriter who falls for the glamorous Laurel (Gloria Grahame). But Dix has a violent streak in him, and though he's finally absolved of the murder he's accused of, the love affair cannot survive. Undeniably, as Dana Polan shows in his subtle and intelligent account, there are autobiographical undertones in the film--the marriage of Gloria Grahame to its director, Nicholas Ray, began to break up during production. Yet despite its bleak ending and its frequent noir style, argues Polan, the wise-cracking between Dix and Laurel gives the film the aspect of a screwball comedy. Critics were uncertain how to respond to this mix of genres when the film first appeared. Since then however,In a Lonely Placehas rightfully been acknowledged as a classic and compelling story of blighted love., In a Lonely Place is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Ray's then wife, Gloria Grahame, and Humphrey Bogart as a jaundiced Hollywood scriptwriter.
