In a Lonely Place screens on TCM Party

What does it mean when fans of a novel hate the movie version, but everyone else adores it? Maybe it means Bogart and Graham were never better and Nick Ray knew his way around a film set. Eddie introduces his favorite noir on tonight’s Summer of Darkness installment. #InALonelyPlace #TCMParty

"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." Bar none, my favorite movie line of all time. #InALonelyPlace #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

Good idea. There must’ve been something in the water in 1950 Hollywood. In a Lonely Place, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and the Best Picture-winner, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve were all released in the same year all with a jaundiced view of their industry. #InALonelyPlace #TCMParty

"Yet it is certainly one of the most forthright films to deal with domestic abuse ever to come from a major production company, let alone in the early 1950s." www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/m... #TCMParty #InALonelyPlace #TheSummerOfDarkness

Where oh where can I find a chain smoking wise cracking maid like Effie? Those are hard to find. #TCMParty #InALonelyPlace

I like to think that if Humphrey Bogart had lived to become an old man, we would have gotten some fantastic horror movie performances out of him #InALonelyPlace #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

Years before anyone coined the term 'abusive relationship' #InALonelyPlace created a vivid portrait of one. #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

*quickly types before losing his nerve* I know I'm in a tiny minority, but I'll never understand the adulation for #InALonelyPlace. A part of me kinda hates this movie. It's cheap-looking, absurdly plotted in a way that doesn't pay off, and Bogart's character is clearly a serial killer. #TCMParty

I love this scene where Dixon's explaining how the murder happened, the lighting on his face is so perfect. #TCMParty #InALonelyPlace

Why do I think there's more than a little Ray in Dix? #InALonelyPlace #TCMParty

I don’t know if he killed Mildred, but Dix sure is butchering that grapefruit half #TCMParty #InALonelyPlace #SummerOfDarkness

A ring, a house, a car? If he wasn't crazy all of that would sound great. #InALonelyPlace #TCMParty

Anyone else have those wool blankets with silk trim growing up? #TCMParty

Given Eddie’s huge affection for it, I presume it’s CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS. As it’s a Republic film, TCM would likely have licensing issues. (Eddie has hosted TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY before.) #TheNoirCollective is hoping to host CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, as a personal “thank you” to Eddie. 😊 #TCMParty

as is normally the case, he is surrounded by a bunch of enablers who put up with his shit, too afraid to fight back and worse yet, justify it as "taking the good with the bad" #ItsALonelyPlace #TCMParty