Movie
In a Lonely Place
Overview
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
Details
- Release date
- 1950-05-17
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama, Romance, Mystery
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Santana Pictures Corporation, Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
- Gloria Grahame as Laurel Gray
- Frank Lovejoy as Brub Nicolai
- Carl Benton Reid as Capt. Lochner
- Art Smith as Mel Lippman
- Jeff Donnell as Sylvia Nicolai
- Martha Stewart as Mildred Atkinson
- Robert Warwick as Charlie Waterman
- Morris Ankrum as Lloyd Barnes
- William Ching as Ted Barton
- Steven Geray as Paul
- Hadda Brooks as Singer
Crew
- Nicholas Ray - Director
- Andrew Solt - Screenplay
- Dorothy B. Hughes - Story
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