Synopsis
They Live by Night (1949) — watch online on iFILM. Nicholas Ray's debut is a doomed-romance noir built around two people who have almost no real experience of life outside of bad luck.
Bowie (Farley Granger) spent seven years locked up for a killing he says he never meant. Two hardened cons break him out — not as a favor but to use him as the wheel man for their next job. On the run and scared, Bowie meets Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), who has had as little real life as he has. They get married quietly, with almost no money, and try to pretend the rest of the world doesn't apply to them.
Ray focuses the whole picture on the lovers rather than the crime — an unusual angle for 1949. You can feel the walls closing in long before the characters admit it. Stream They Live by Night (1949) online on iFILM.
Starring
Comments 0