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They Live by Night (1949)

Cops or no cops I'm going through!

6.9(185)1h 36mNovember 1, 1949

Crime Romance Drama

Nicholas Ray

Director

Charles Schnee

Writer

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Diary

Overview

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.

Cast

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

They Live by Night · Cinemalant

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Helen Craig

Mattie

Will Wright

Mobley

William Phipps

Young Farmer

Ian Wolfe

Hawkins

Harry Harvey

Hagenheimer

Will Lee

Jeweler

James Nolan

Schreiber

Charles Meredith

Comm. Hubbell

Teddy Infuhr

Alvin

Byron Foulger

Lambert

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: November 1, 1949
Production: RKO Radio Pictures
Country: United States of America

Keywords

film noiron the runblack and whitebank robbery

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