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They Live by Night
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They Live by Night

film by Ray [1948]
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  • filming of Rebel Without a Cause
    Nicholas Ray
    / First films

    …at RKO, where he directed They Live by Night (1948) from his own adaptation of Edward Anderson’s 1937 novel Thieves Like Us. Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell played a young couple whose naïve flirtation with crime spells their doom in this seminal film noir, which ranks as one of Hollywood’s…

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    …at RKO, where he directed They Live by Night (1948) from his own adaptation of Edward Anderson’s 1937 novel Thieves Like Us. Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell played a young couple whose naïve flirtation with crime spells their doom in this seminal film noir, which ranks as one of Hollywood’s…

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