Extended Reading
  • Dave 2022-05-11 21:25:27

    love by faith or faith by love

    The reason why Bogart is one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century is that he is good at expressing the great contrast between the appearance and the heart of the characters. In this film, the protagonist Steele played by Bogart is also such a character with great internal and external...

  • Lela 2022-05-11 22:17:22

    Grumpy Brother

    Nicholas Ray's films always focus on men with extremely unstable personalities, such as James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause", such as the middle-aged man in "Higher than Life" who is gradually blackened by the influence of drugs . In this film, Steele, the irritable and down-to-earth screenwriter...

In a Lonely Place quotes

  • Dixon Steele: [to Laurel] I've been looking for someone a long time... I didn't know her name or where she lived - I'd never seen her before. A girl was killed, and because of that, I found what I was looking for. Now I know your name, where you live, and how you look.

  • Laurel Gray: [on a scene in Dix's script] I love the love scene - it's very good.

    Dixon Steele: Well that's because they're not always telling each other how much in love they are. A good love scene should be about something else besides love. For instance, this one. Me fixing grapefruit. You sitting over there, dopey, half-asleep. Anyone looking at us could tell we're in love.