Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid
Synopsis:
A screenwriter susceptible to outbursts of violence is suspected of murdering a girl he took home innocently one night, and the fall-out threatens his nascent relationship with the neighbour who provided him with an alibi.
Review:
A psychological semi-noir, with Bogart a little out of his range playing a tormented psychotic who must also be sympathetic. The makers naturally bottle out of making him the murderer, so that one is left with a far from satisfying murder investigation crossed with a romantic drama doomed by suspicion. It was a key role for Grahame, who establishes her modernity by sleeping nude. There is a lesbian masseuse, possibly another first of some description. In any event this is one of those pictures the French critics loved for its personal stamp (strong affective relationships between men).
Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid
Synopsis:
A screenwriter susceptible to outbursts of violence is suspected of murdering a girl he took home innocently one night, and the fall-out threatens his nascent relationship with the neighbour who provided him with an alibi.
Review:
A psychological semi-noir, with Bogart a little out of his range playing a tormented psychotic who must also be sympathetic. The makers naturally bottle out of making him the murderer, so that one is left with a far from satisfying murder investigation crossed with a romantic drama doomed by suspicion. It was a key role for Grahame, who establishes her modernity by sleeping nude. There is a lesbian masseuse, possibly another first of some description. In any event this is one of those pictures the French critics loved for its personal stamp (strong affective relationships between men).
