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They Live by Night

Movie
1949
1h 36m
NR
English
Drama, Crime, Romance
User Score: 
7.5
Critic Score: 
89
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An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
They Live by Night Poster

They Live by Night

NR
Movie
1949
1h 36m
English
Drama, Crime, Romance
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
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7.5
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They Live by Night (1949) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
89

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Cathy ODonnell
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
Farley Granger
Arthur "Bowie" Bowers
Howard Da Silva
Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
Jay C Flippen
Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield
William Phipps
Young Farmer
Ian Wolfe
Hawkins
Harry Harvey
Hagenheimer
Will Lee
Jeweler
James Nolan
Schreiber
Charles Meredith
Comm. Hubbell
Guy Beach
Plumber
Directed By: Nicholas Ray
Written By: Charles Schnee (Screenplay), Edward Anderson (Novel)

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keisatsu663 says...
4 months ago
Not my favorite film noir. (It's *kind of* noir.) It's more about the doomed romance of Farley Granger's character and the woman he marries. It is, however, a film that effectively conveys the innocent quality of Farley Granger as an actor. The two hardboiled characters that Granger's character runs around with—Chicamaw and T-Dub—are appealing in their nastiness, however. The film also appealingly depicts some eccentricities of small town American life—the guy who performs the weddings by the bus stop; the woman who works in the diner; the guy who rents Granger's character the cabin. The Criterion edition contains an "Audio commentary featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger". Eddie Muller has some insights, but Farley Granger sounds rather old and generally forgetful about making the film. They both make the case that Nicholas Ray treated actors well. Eddie Muller points out that this film, Nicholas Ray's first, involved a number of people involved with making *Citizen Kane*, another first film. He argues they are the two best first films. (Maybe in Hollywood, although he doesn't say so explicitly.)
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