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They Live by Night is a 1948 American film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, in his directorial debut, and starring Cathy O'Donnell and Farley Granger. Based on Edward Anderson's Depression-era novel Thieves Like Us, the film follows a young convict on the run who falls in love with a woman and attempts to begin a life with her.
They Live by Night: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen. 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. Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America’s outcasts and underdogs.
Nicholas Ray's romantic crime drama They Live by Night (1948) is a peerless example of film noir with Ray's masterful directing style already developed for his directorial debut.
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In the '40s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-year-old Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Keechie.
They Live by Night (1948) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Having just escaped a prison farm with T-Dub (Jay C. Flippen) and Chickamaw (Howard Da Silva) and taken shelter at a service station owned by Chickamaw’s brother, Bowie agrees to help the guys rob a bank so they can hire lawyers to take on their wrongful conviction cases.
