They Live by Night
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1948.
Special features: Audio commentary from 2007 featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger; New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith; Short piece from 2007 with critic Molly Haskell, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone, and film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini; Illustrated audio excerpts from a 1956 interview with producer John Houseman. Container insert includes an essay "Dream Journey" by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz.
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wright, Marie Bryant, Ian Wolfe, William Phipps, Harry Harvey.
"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie's fellow outlaws, who aren't about to let him go straight, they realize there's nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider's sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come"--Container.
Blu-ray, region A ; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; uncompressed monaural.
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REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Library Journal ReviewCOMMUNITY REVIEWS
Cool submitted by leenajong on August 23, 2017, 4:50pm So cool for film noir.
Nice submitted by yenkong on August 23, 2017, 5:03pm The re-master made it great.
This is one noir that never really grabbed me. submitted by lisa on July 30, 2019, 10:55am I've tried twice, too. I'm not sure what the problem is. I just don't care about this couple, don't believe in them as characters, don't want to root for them or against them....
SERIES
Criterion collection
880.
They live by night (Motion picture)
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
PUBLISHED
New York : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Blu-Ray
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781681433158
168143315X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979,
Schnee, Charles, 1916-1962,
Houseman, John, 1902-1988,
Schary, Dore,
Granger, Farley,
O'Donnell, Cathy, 1925-1970,
Da Silva, Howard, 1909-1986,
Flippen, Jay C., 1899-1971,
Craig, Helen, 1912-1986,
Wright, Will, 1891-1962,
Bryant, Marie,
Wolfe, Ian, 1896-1992,
Phipps, William, 1922-
Harvey, Harry, 1929-1978,
Diskant, George E., 1907-1965,
Todd, Sherman,
Harline, Leigh,
Anderson, Edward, 1905-1969.
RKO Radio Pictures,
Criterion Collection (Firm),
SUBJECTS
Anderson, Edward, -- 1905-1969 -- Film adaptations.
Fugitives from justice -- Drama.
Prisons -- Mississippi -- Drama.
Ex-convicts -- Mississippi -- Drama.
Escaped prisoners -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Feature films.
Film noir.
Crime films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.