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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.
A young convict falls in love with a woman while on the run with two older criminals. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this film directed by Nicholas Ray.
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- Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
- Nicholas Ray
- 1949-11-05
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.
- Keechie
Wrongly convicted for murder as a teen, "Bowie" Bowers (Farley Granger) breaks out of prison with two other criminals, Chickamaw (Howard da Silva) and T-Dub (Jay C. Flippen). While hiding out ...
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- Cathy O'donnell
- Nicholas Ray
- Crime, Drama
A romantic crime drama about an escaped convict and a ranch girl who fall in love and face the dangers of the law. Read the plot summaries, synopsis, and trivia of this classic film starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell.
They Live By Night (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Just A Black Sheep Bowie (Farley Granger) and Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), now fugitives and separated from his gang, make some quick decisions when their Greyhound stops at a diner, in Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night, 1949.
"This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title, director Nicholas Ray inaugurates his first feature, They Live by Night. Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell play a "Bonnie and Clyde"-type fugitive couple, who in trying to escape their past are hell-bent down the road to Doom.
