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They Live by Night (Criterion Collection) Blu-Ray

They Live by Night (Criterion Collection) Blu-Ray

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This release includes a booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz.

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. 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.

SKU: 5050629162134

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Actors: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva

Director: Nicholas Ray

Special Features: Audio commentary featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger, New video interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith, Short piece from 2007 with film critic Molly Haskell/ filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone/ and film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini, Illustrated audio interview excerpts from 1956 with producer John Houseman

Release Year: 1948



Technical Details

Run Time: 95 minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

Video Format: PAL

More Information

Format: Blu-Ray

Label: Criterion Collection

Region Coding: Region B

Language: English

Subtitles: English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Case Type: Blu-Ray Case

Genre: Film-Noir, Crime, Drama, Romance

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