They Live by Night
Cops or no cops I'm going through!
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11/1/1949Runtime
96 minsOverview
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
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A doomed love story shot through with noir fatalism, where two fugitives' desperate romance becomes entangled with the inexorable machinery of law and consequence. The film moves with elegiac grace toward an ending that feels inevitable from the start.
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Cathy O'Donnell
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
Farley Granger
Arthur "Bowie" Bowers
Howard Da Silva
Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
Jay C. Flippen
Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield
Helen Craig
Mattie
Will Wright
Mobley
William Phipps
Young Farmer
Ian Wolfe
Hawkins
Harry Harvey
Hagenheimer
Marie Bryant
Singer
Will Lee
Jeweler
James Nolan
Schreiber
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