You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once (1937) is a Fritz Lang crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney. Fonda plays Eddie Taylor, a three-time offender who walks out of prison determined to keep his nose clean. Sidney is his wife Joan, the one person who believes him without conditions or caveats.

Society disagrees. Eddie can't hold a job once anyone checks his record, and when his hat turns up near a bank robbery where six guards were killed, the police aren't interested in his alibi. He's convicted and sentenced to death. He escapes. And from that moment forward, every step he and Joan take makes the next step worse.

Lang drew loosely on the Bonnie and Clyde case but built something less romantic — a cold indictment of a justice system that had already written Eddie off before he ever committed the crime he's accused of. Shot with the controlled shadows Lang brought over from German expressionism, the film still cuts. Stream You Only Live Once (1937) online on iFILM.