In a Lonely Place
I like Bogey in just about everything, and I found his darker turn here to be captivating... however, the lowered stakes of the rest of the script just kind of bored me.
It hinted to this dark side, and there were moments where you'd see it come out, but it was pushed too far the other way... the happy couple or dutiful worker scenes took up too much of the screen time. You needed them to balance the darkness (and the, according to Wikipedia, totally copped out ending compared to the original planned)... I don't know.
Although I feel like I'm being kind of harsh, it's not that I disliked the film, not at all... I just was really hoping for something to knock me on my ass, and this didn't. Maybe that's the story for me and Nicholas Ray. I went into Rebel... pretty excited, and ended up actively hating it, and this, I had such high hopes for, and just ended up finding it "good".
Not something I'll consider for my Top 100. Sorry Matt.
*** 1/2