They live by night
2017
Blu-ray
"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.
Item Details
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).
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC2772BD
- 11853982
Control Number: 2131198
UPC: 715515198615
Publisher: New York : The Criterion Collection, [2017]Series:
Subjects:
- Anderson, Edward, 1905-1969 -- Film adaptations.
- Escaped prisoners -- Drama.
- Ex-convicts -- Mississippi -- Drama.
- Fugitives from justice -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Prisons -- Mississippi -- Drama.
Genre:
- Crime films.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Film noir.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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.