In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogart's Santana Productions. The script was adapted by Edmund North from the 1947 novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes.Bogart stars as Dixon Steele, a troubled screenwriter suspected of murder. Grahame co-stars as Laurel Gray, a neighbor who falls under his spell.