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They Live by Night
Thriller in which a naive young criminal falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health after he is injured in a bank raid.
Dark interpretation of Thieves Like Us, combining gangster-led film noir with a touching love story. A naive young man is hired by two callous criminals to help them in a bank raid, but he is injured and taken to a hideout to recover. He falls in love with the young woman who nurses him back to health, but the forces of law and order threaten their hopes of romantic bliss. Nicholas Ray's directorial debut.
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Sat 7 Jun 2014
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Bowie | Farley Granger |
| Keechie | Cathy O'Donnell |
| Chickamaw | Howard Da Silva |
| T-Dub | Jay C Flippen |
| Mattie | Helen Craig |
| Mobley | Will Wright |
| Young Farmer | William Phipps |
| Director | Nicholas Ray |
| Producer | John Houseman |
| Writer | Charles Schnee |