They Live by Night (2007)
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Director:John Berry
Studio:RKO
Producer:Robert Sisk
Writer:Allen Rivkin, John D. Klorer
Rating:9
Rated:Unrated
Date Added:2015-07-03
UPC:085391150206
Price:$20.98
Awards:Nominated for Oscar,
Genre:Crime, Film-Noir
Release:2007-07-31
IMDb:0040872
Location:1491
Duration:95
Picture Format:DVDRip
Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
Sound:Dolby
Languages:English
Subtitles:French
Features:Black and White
John Berry  ...  (Director)
Allen Rivkin, John D. Klorer  ...  (Writer)
 
Cathy O'Donnell  ...  Keechie
Farley Granger  ...  Bowie
Howard Da Silva  ...  Chickamaw
Jay C. Flippen  ...  T-Dub
Helen Craig  ...  Mattie
Will Wright  ...  Mobley
William Phipps  ...  Young Farmer
Ian Wolfe  ...  Hawkins
Harry Harvey  ...  Hagenheimer
Marie Bryant  ...  Singer
Will Lee  ...  Jeweler
James Nolan  ...  Schreiber (as Jim Nolan)
Charles Meredith  ...  Comm. Hubbell
Teddy Infuhr  ...  Alvin
James Craig  ...  Georgie Garsell
Paul Kelly  ...  Captain Walter Anderson
Byron Foulger  ...  Lambert
Jean Hagen  ...  Harriet Sinton
Helen Crozier  ...  Nurse
Leigh Harline  ...  Composer
Woody Guthrie  ...  Composer
George E. Diskant  ...  Cinematographer
Sherman Todd  ...  Editor
Albert S. D'Agostino  ...  Art Director
Alfred Herman  ...  Art Director
Summary: "This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title, director Nicholas Ray inaugurates his first feature, They Live by Night. Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell play a "Bonnie and Clyde"-type fugitive couple, who in trying to escape their past are hell-bent down the road to Doom. Despite their criminal activities, Bowie (Granger) and Keechie (O'Donnell) are hopelessly naïve, fabricating their own idyllic dream world as the authorities close in. The entrapment -- both actual and symbolic -- of the young misfit couple can now be seen as a precursor to the dilemma facing James Dean in Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. A box-office disappointment upon its first release, They Live by Night has since gained stature as one of the most sensitive and least-predictable entries in the film noir genre. The film was based on a novel by Edward Anderson, and in 1974 was filmed by Robert Altman under its original title, Thieves Like Us.