Films I Love #9: In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." These romantic, poetic lines, spoken by Humphrey Bogart's Dix Steele in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place, seem like classic Bogie. Wry, clever, with an undercurrent of melancholy, they're words of love delivered completely without sentimentality or sappiness, the kind of lines that allowed Bogie to