They live by night
(2017, original release: 1948)

Fiction

Blu-ray

Call Numbers:
BLU-RAY/DRAMA/THEY

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
EDITION
Blu-ray special edition
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9781681433158, 168143315X :, 0715515198615 CC2772BD, 168143315X, 9781681433158, 715515198615
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1948

"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, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie's fellow outlaws, who aren't about to let him go straight, they realize there's nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider's sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come"--Container

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

Not rated by the MPAA

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)

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