In A Lonely Place (the Nicholas Ray-directed film not the Joy Division song)

Rewatched this for the first time in years, again in connection to James Harvey's Movie Love in the Fifties.

Morbidly fascinating for sure, although I wouldn't quite put it in my first rank of '50s American films (On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, Paths of Glory). Dix is another one for that Ethan Edwards/Scottie/Dave Bannion borderline psycho list.

Harvey doesn't mention something I just assumed: that Laurel was planning to run off with Martha the masseuse at the end. There are clear intimations of this, I think.

Not sure if this comes up in the thread, but according to Harvey, Ray's original script (all but four pages of which were altered) had the film end with Dix murdering Laurel, then having his friend arrive at the apartment to clear him of the other murder.

"Dix Steele"--that's like one Hays Code warning away from Johnny Wadd.

this is one of the best movies ever made imho

this is certainly Graham's best and that's saying something!

My fave Bogie performance (even if it isn't the most Bogie performance).

This is a good movie.

this is one of the best movies ever made imho
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, May 25, 2020 12:32 PM (yesterday0

This.