They live by night

Blu-ray 2017

"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, de...

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Anderson, Edward, 1905-1969 Film adaptations

Escaped prisoners Drama

Ex-convicts Mississippi Drama

Fugitives from justice Drama

Man-woman relationships Drama

Prisons Mississippi Drama

More in this Genre:

Crime films Drama Feature films Film adaptations Film noir Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 880

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ISBN:

9781681433158

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 Blu-ray disc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical monaural
video file Blu-Ray region A
monochrome

Target Audience Note:

MPAA: Not rated
CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Container of (work): They live by night (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1948
Special features: Audio commentary from 2007 featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger; New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith; Short piece from 2007 with critic Molly Haskell, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone, and film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini; Illustrated audio excerpts from a 1956 interview with producer John Houseman. Container insert includes an essay "Dream Journey" by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz
Director of photography, George E. Diskant ; film editor, Sherman Todd ; music, Leigh Harline
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wright, Marie Bryant, Ian Wolfe, William Phipps, Harry Harvey
Blu-ray, region A ; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; uncompressed monaural
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

Control Number:

2131198

UPC:

715515198615

Other Authors:

Bryant, Marie, actor
Craig, Helen, 1912-1986, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Da Silva, Howard, 1909-1986, actor
Diskant, George E., 1907-1965, director of photography
Flippen, Jay C., 1899-1971, actor
Granger, Farley, actor
Harline, Leigh, composer (expression)
Harvey, Harry, 1929-1978, actor
Houseman, John, 1902-1988, film producer
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Anderson, Edward, 1905-1969. Thieves like us
O'Donnell, Cathy, 1925-1970, actor
Phipps, William, 1922-2018, actor
RKO Radio Pictures, production company
Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979, screenwriter, film director
Schary, Dore, presenter
Schnee, Charles, 1916-1962, screenwriter
Todd, Sherman, editor of moving image work
Wolfe, Ian, 1896-1992, actor
Wright, Will, 1891-1962, actor

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