Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame as Laurel Gray
Frank Lovejoy as Det. Sgt. Brub Nicolai
Carl Benton Reid as Captain Lochner
Art Smith as Mel Lippman
Martha Stewart as Mildred Atkinson
Jeff Donnell as Sylvia Nicolai
Robert Warwick as Charlie Waterman
Morris Ankrum as Lloyd Barnes
William Ching as Ted Barton
Steven Geray as Paul, Headwaiter
Hadda Brooks as Singer
Credits:
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Produced by Robert Lord
Screenplay by Edmund H. North. Andrew Solt (adaptation), based on In a Lonely Place 1947 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes
Music by George Antheil
Cinematography: Burnett Guffey
Edited by Viola Lawrence
Production company: Santana Productions (Bogart’s company)
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date: May 17, 1950
Running time: 94 minutes
Essay written in 2009.
Length: 1298 words