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They Live by Night (1949)

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.

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Martin T 06 May 2010

A blurb on the DVD case says "one of the most unforgettable noirs ever made" and I have to agree. I tend to forget a lot of details about movies, but two years after my first viewing, much of this film stuck with me. The film has a thick aura of bleakness about it, and even the happier moments between Granger and O'Donnell are overcast with dread. Their doomed relationship is tremendously affecting and makes for not only one of the most unforgettable noirs, but one of the most romantic and lyrical.

Mathieu C 02 Aug 2007

Great film by a great director. Nicholas Ray specified in films that dealt with characters that were in love but who they were made it impossible to be together. This film has us witnessing a love affair between an escaped convict and the daughter of a roadside merchant. We know the film can only end badly, even when things are looking up

Douglas P 15 Jan 2008

Barely gets the three-star in my rating - mainly because the sense of dread is held in check in favor of exploring the lover's innocent mindsets of being together in a 'cruel' world. Dread is the essential ingredient of film noir, and I found director Ray wasn't interested in building that up in this tale of doomed love. The characters seem as though they are impervious to fear and that they will always be together. It doesn't gel. The performances are fine, but the problem doesn't lie in the chemistry, but in the director's execution. Ray perfected his dance with the genre with his next film, 'On Dangerous Ground'.

Will S 14 Mar 2016

Nicholas Ray's directorial debut bears the hallmarks of his later masterpieces - his central themes of doomed youth and conflicted masculinity are all here. It bears a vague resemblance to the Bonnie and Clyde story, but Ray's ultra-romantic vision has more in common with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The early scenes, in particular, establish sympathy for the two main characters which a more conventional director could not have achieved, with naturalistic touches that show how Ray was a film-maker ahead of his time (which would ultimately be his undoing.)

Philip T 25 Jul 2008

Well made, intelligent and disturbing. We know from the very start that our hero (a baby-faced, young Farley Granger), whom we see as basically sympathetic guy, is doomed. About halfway through, we see Granger's nameless pursuers, detectives who state loud and clear that he has no chance--the law will eventually catch up to him. Ray shows surveillance, punishment, and maintenance of order as a faceless, inexorable process, and contrasts it with soft images of Granger and Cathy O'Donnell as a naive young couple. If this isn't subversive, I don't know what is. The black and white photography is quite beautiful, too.