Cover image for They live by night
Title:
They live by night
Author:
Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979 film director, screenwriter.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
"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.
General Note:
Title from screen.

From the novel "Thieves like us" by Edward Anderson.

Originally released 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.
Language:
English
Added Uniform Title:
Container of (work): They live by night (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9781681433165
UPC:
715515198714
Format :
DVD