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In this beautiful, haunting film, Humphrey Bogart plays a disillusioned screenwriter who is blacklisted for his alcoholism and temper, and destroyed by the contaminating atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. When he is suspected of murder, his neighbor, played by Gloria Grahame, provides him with an alibi; they meet and fall in love. However, for director Nicholas Ray, love doesn't occur in an idyllic place, separated from an alienating world, but rather in a lonely place where violence and injustice are the norm and feeling and art are forgotten. While Ray was not blacklisted, he was an important figure of the Hollywood left. Noel Burch wrote, "One can say that of all those who entered directing around the end of the war, it is Ray, in his major period, who devoted himself most systematically to an explicit critique of masculinity and the 'normal' ascription of sexual roles....The 'lonely place' of In a Lonely Place is not only Hollywood...but also 'man's place.'"