They Live by Night (1949)
They Live by Night (1949)


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Cast & Crew.

Cathy O'Donnell
Catherine 'Keechie' Mobley

Farley Granger
Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers

Howard Da Silva
Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley

Jay C. Flippen
Henry 'T-Dub' Mansfield

Helen Craig
Mattie

Will Wright
Mobley

William Phipps
Young Farmer

Ian Wolfe
Hawkins

Harry Harvey
Hagenheimer

Marie Bryant
Singer

Will Lee
Jeweler

James Nolan
Schreiber

Charles Meredith
Comm. Hubbell

Teddy Infuhr
Alvin

Byron Foulger
Lambert

Guy Beach
Plumber

Nicholas Ray
Director / Adaptation

George E. Diskant
Director of Photography

John Houseman
Producer

Sherman Todd
Editor

Dore Schary
Executive Producer

Leigh Harline
Original Music Composer

Edward Anderson
Novel

Charles Schnee
Screenplay
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Details.
Release DateNovember 1, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsLos Angeles, United States
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This Movie Is About.
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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 fugitive who falls in love with a woman and attempts to begin a life with her.
The film opened theatrically in London in August 1948 under the title The Twisted Road and was released in the United States by RKO Radio Pictures as They Live by Night in November 1949. Although the film received favorable reviews from film critics, it was a box-office failure, losing the studio $445,000 (equivalent to $5.88 million in 2024).
Although the film is widely considered as the prototype for the "couple on the run" genre and the forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the story was first depicted in Fritz Lang's 1937 film You Only Live Once, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney. Director Jim Jarmusch cites the film as one of the influences on no wave cinema and his work in general. Robert Altman directed another adaptation of the novel in 1974 using the original title of the novel, Thieves Like Us.
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