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They Live by Night

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NR,1hr 35min
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1949
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Synopsis: "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 ... Full Synopsis
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A premiere purveyor of high-strung anguish and jittery visual panache, Nicholas Ray filled his 1949 directorial debut with the wrenching emotion, fateful violence, and stylistic flair that would mark his most famous films, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Johnny Guitar (1954). Adapted from Edward Anderson's novel Thieves Like Us and starring sweet-faced Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell, the film ... Full Review
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