In a Lonely Place (1950) (***, drama, crime) (D.-Nicholas Ray; Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Robert Warwick, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart) In contrast to so many leading men of his time, Bogart masterfully played a lot of memorable marginalized characters. In Lonely, he plays a talented, but believably self-destructive screenwriter who has an affair with aspiring actress Grahame. He is ... on a short list of suspects for the murder of a young woman. Bogart's character is complex and appropriately unpredictable. His character also has eerie similarities with Bogart's own brutal and highly self-destructive life before he married Lauren Bacall.