| Edition |
DVD special edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. stamping rda |
| Description |
digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0 rda |
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fullscreen |
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NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video region 1 rda |
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Motion picture lcsh |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 880 |
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Criterion collection ; 880.
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| System Details |
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural. |
| Language |
In English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH). |
| Cast |
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wright, Marie Bryant, Ian Wolfe, William Phipps, Harry Harvey. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, George E. Diskant ; film editor, Sherman Todd ; art directors, Albert S. D'Agostino, Al Herman ; music, Leigh Harline. |
| Note |
From the novel "Thieves like us" by Edward Anderson. |
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Title from screen. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. |
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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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Fugitives from justice -- Drama.
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Escaped prisoners -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Prisons -- Mississippi -- Drama.
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Ex-convicts -- Mississippi -- Drama.
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Mississippi -- Drama.
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Crime -- Drama.
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Anderson, Edward, 1905-1969 -- Film adaptations.
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Anderson, Edward, 1905-1969 (OCoLC)fst00143388
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Crime. (OCoLC)fst00882984
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Escaped prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01763764
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Ex-convicts. (OCoLC)fst00917418
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Fugitives from justice. (OCoLC)fst00935947
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Prisons. (OCoLC)fst01077326
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Mississippi. (OCoLC)fst01207034
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| Genre/Form |
Crime films. (OCoLC)fst01710477
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
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Film noir. (OCoLC)fst01710306
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Romance films. (OCoLC)fst01710332
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Thrillers (Motion pictures) (OCoLC)fst01726193
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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Film noir.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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Crime films.
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Romance films.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979, film director, screenwriter.
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Houseman, John, 1902-1988, film producer.
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Schary, Dore, presenter.
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Harline, Leigh, composer (expression)
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Todd, Sherman, editor of moving image work.
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D'Agostino, Albert, 1892-1970, art director.
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Herman, Al, 1889-1973, art director.
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Schnee, Charles, 1916-1962, screenwriter.
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O'Donnell, Cathy, 1925-1970, actor.
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Diskant, George E., 1907-1965, director of photography.
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Granger, Farley, actor.
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Da Silva, Howard, 1909-1986, actor.
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Flippen, Jay C., 1899-1971, actor.
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Craig, Helen, 1912-1986, actor.
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Wright, Will, 1891-1962, actor.
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Bryant, Marie, actor.
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Wolfe, Ian, 1896-1992, actor.
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Phipps, William, 1922-2018 actor.
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Harvey, Harry, 1929-1978, actor.
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Muller, Eddie, commentator.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Anderson, Edward, 1905-1969.
Thieves like us.
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RKO Radio Pictures, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| Added Title |
Container of (work): They live by night (Motion picture)
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| ISBN |
9781681433165 |
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1681433168 |
| Standard No. |
715515198714 |
| Music No. |
CC2773D The Criterion Collection |
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