A follow-up to the author’s acclaimed, award-winning book, “Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD: A Guide to the Best in Cinema Thrills”, this new ebook describes more than 160 additional movies in the mystery, noir, suspense categories that are now available to purchase for the home DVD library. This book is divided into two sections. In the first, complete cast and production credits, plus full release details are provided in addition to extensive reviews. The second section supplies vital information (including DVD details), while concentrating on comprehensive assessments. Just a few of the 160 movies covered in this book include Above Suspicion, Along Came a Spider, The Asphalt Jungle, The Bicycle Thief, The Case of the Howling Dog, Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Chinatown, City Hall, Cutter’s Way, Dangerous Crossing, The Da Vinci Code, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Dead Reckoning, Dick Tracy, The Firm, Gilda, Hangmen Also Die, Hound of the Baskervilles, The House of Secrets, Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Kiss Before Dying, The Long Goodbye, The Manchurian Candidate, The Metro Chase, Murder on a Honeymoon, The Phantom Express, Pickup on South Street, The Presidio, Scream in the Night, The Shawshank Redemption, The Temp, Thieves Highway, The Thirteenth Guest, Times Square, 23 Paces to Baker Street, The Wilby Conspiracy, Witness, Witness for the Prosecution, The Woman in Green, Young Man with a Horn, You Only Live Once. (112 pages). (33,681 words).

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One of the classics of the noir psychological thriller, In a Lonely Place is one of Humphrey Bogart’s finest performances. He is almost unbearably intense as Dixon Steele, a screenwriter with high standards and a nasty temper who finds himself under suspicion when Mildred, a hat-check girl he knows, is found murdered. Immediately he gets an alibi from a neighbour, Laurel, and equally quickly, he recognises that this is a woman who meets his standards: the question is, as suspicion of his involvement in Mildred’s death continues, can he make himself meet hers?

This is a wonderful study in trust and suspicion and the limits of love; Bogart’s performance is impressive simply because he is prepared to go well over the limits of our sympathy in the name of emotional truth. The scene where he explains imaginatively to a cop and his wife how the murder might have happened is a spine-chilling, creepy portrait of amoral artistic brilliance. Gloria Grahame is equally fine as the woman who lets herself love him, for a while.

On the DVD: In a Lonely Place comes with an excellent documentary in which Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential) explains the importance of the film to him and discusses its place in the work of Bogart and the director Nicholas Ray; there is also a quick interesting documentary about the restoration and digitisation of classic films. The film is presented with a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and with restored Dolby Surround sound that does full justice to the film’s snappy dialogue and the moody George Antheil score. –Roz Kaveney

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