They Live by Night (1949)
They Live by Night (1949)
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This Movie Is About.
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
Dore Schary
Executive Producer
George E. Diskant
Director of Photography
Sherman Todd
Editor
Nicholas Ray
Director / Adaptation
Charles Schnee
Screenplay
Edward Anderson
Novel
Leigh Harline
Original Music Composer
John Houseman
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 1, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsLos Angeles, United States
Genres
Wiki.
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.
The film opened theatrically in London in August 1948 under the title The Twisted Road, before it was released in the United States by RKO Radio Pictures as They Live by Night in November 1949. Though it received favorable reviews from film critics, it was a box-office failure, losing the studio $445,000.
Although the film is considered by many to be the prototype for the "couple on the run" genre and is generally seen as the forerunner to the movie Bonnie and Clyde, the first telling of the story was actually the 1939 Persons in Hiding, based on the J. Edgar Hoover memoir of the same title.
Robert Altman directed another adaptation of the novel using the original title of the novel, Thieves Like Us (1974).