IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
and
DEAD RECKONING (1947)
The first film showcases one of Bogart's finest performances (informed a good bit from his work as Fred C. Dobbs with John Huston on THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, honing his more inchoate approach to paranoia (that had left films like CONFLICT and THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS ultimately unsatisfying) into a much more satisfying character arc.
The second film has a dynamite first half anchored by Bogart's voiceover; it tends to get away from itself in the second half, but I'm always invigorated by his narration, which brings home the strangeness of the situation he's encountering.
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