Nicholas Ray - Accidents of Imagination
In a Lonely Place
- 1950
- Directed By: Nicholas Ray

- Drama
- 94 Minutes
- Sunday, February 3, 2013 3:00 p.m.
- Free, but ticketed
A semi-autobiographical critique of Hollywood itself, filtered
through the cynical lens of film noir, this brooding Humphrey
Bogart vehicle explores one of the most important themes
in Ray’s work: the redemptive potential of romantic love
caught in tension with the personally destructive nature of
masculine violence, neurotic obsession, and self-expression.
The film is a study in the paranoia and alienation
endemic to the modernity of
postwar America, with Bogart as
a burned-out screenwriter under
investigation for murder and
Gloria Grahame as the woman he
loves who begins to question his
innocence. (35mm presentation)
