A veiled re-enactment of the tempestuous relationship of Gloria Grahame and director Nicholas Ray, with Bogart standing in for Ray, and Grahame staying on as Grahame, and Ray directing. The Bogart character a hard-drinking, violent-tempered Hollywood screenwriter who is faintly amused to find himself becoming a suspect in the murder of a hatcheck girl — is fascinating for the amount of his behavior that's on or over the edge without having to enter a psycho-thriller pigeonhole. With Frank Lovejoy and Robert Warwick. (1950) — Duncan Shepherd
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