In A Lonely Place (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] [1950

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One of the true classics of the noir psychological thriller, In a Lonely Place is one of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances. He is almost unbearably intense as Dixon Steele, a screenwriter with high standards and a hair trigger temper who finds himself under suspicion when Mildred, a hat-check girl he knows, is found murdered. Immediately he gets an alibi from a neighbour, Laurel, and equally quickly, he recognises that this is a woman who meets his standards: The question is, as suspicion of his involvement in Mildred's death continues, can he make himself meet hers.

This is a wonderful study in trust and suspicion and the limits of love; Bogart's performance is impressive simply because he is prepared to go well over the limits of our sympathy in the name of emotional truth. The scene where he explains imaginatively to a cop and his wife how the murder might have happened is a spine-chilling, creepy portrait of amoral artistic brilliance. Gloria Grahame is equally fine as the woman who lets herself love him, for a while.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New audio commentary featuring film scholar Dana Polan
• I’m a Stranger Here Myself, a 1975 documentary about director Nicholas Ray, slightly condensed for this release
• New interview with biographer Vincent Curcio about actor Gloria Grahame
• Piece from 2002 featuring filmmaker Curtis Hanson
• Radio adaptation from 1948 of the original Dorothy B. Hughes novel, broadcast on the program Suspense
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

• Language ? : ? English
• Product Dimensions ? : ? 17.5 x 13.79 x 1.8 cm; 20 Grams
• Audio Description: ? : ? English
• Manufacturer reference ? : ? unknown
• Director ? : ? Nicholas Ray
• Media Format ? : ? PAL, Blu-ray
• Run time ? : ? 1 hour and 33 minutes
• Release date ? : ? 16 May 2016
• Actors ? : ? Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith
• Subtitles: ? : ? English
• Studio ? : ? Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Producers ? : ? Robert Lord
• ASIN ? : ? B01DP3J4QO
• Writers ? : ? Andrew Solt
• Number of discs ? : ? 1

I came to this one later than Bogart's more well known classics such as Casablanca,The Maltese Falcon,The Big Sleep etc. as it's not as well known but this deserves to be ranked up there with any of those.
His performances as a hard nosed cynic with a wry humour and well hidden softer side gave him an appeal that made him one of the biggest and most enduring stars of Hollywood's golden years.However,in this film his character has the full-on intensity of a man who is always on the edge of violence that makes for one of the great performances of that or any other era. In a word, superb.
Now it's been restored and released on blu ray it's worth every penny to give away your dvd and buy again. And if you don't own it or haven't even seen it then don't hesitate-get it and you won't be disappointed.

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