They live by night

Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979 (film director,, screenwriter.). Houseman, John, 1902-1988 (film producer.). Schary, Dore, (presenter.). Schnee, Charles, 1916-1962 (screenwriter.). Diskant, George E., 1907-1965 (director of photography.). Harline, Leigh, (composer (expression)). Todd, Sherman, (editor of moving image work.). D'Agostino, Albert, 1893-1970 (art director.). Herman, Al, 1889-1973 (art director.). O'Donnell, Cathy, 1925-1970 (actor.). Granger, Farley, (actor.). Da Silva, Howard, 1909-1986 (actor.). Flippen, Jay C., 1899-1971 (actor.). Craig, Helen, 1912-1986 (actor.). Wright, Will, 1891-1962 (actor.). Bryant, Marie, (actor.). Wolfe, Ian, 1896-1992 (actor.). Phipps, William, 1922-2018 (actor.). Harvey, Harry, 1929-1978 (actor.). Muller, Eddie, (commentator.). Anderson, Edward 1905-1969 Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Thieves like us. (Added Author). RKO Radio Pictures, (production company.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (film distributor.). Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wright, Marie Bryant, Ian Wolfe, William Phipps, Harry Harvey. (Cast).

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9781681433165
ISBN: 1681433168
Physical Description: videodisc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Edition: DVD special edition.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Title from screen. From the novel "Thieves like us" by Edward Anderson. Originally released 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.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, George E. Diskant ; film editor, Sherman Todd ; art directors, Albert S. D'Agostino, Al Herman ; music, Leigh Harline.
Participant or Performer Note:	Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wright, Marie Bryant, Ian Wolfe, William Phipps, Harry Harvey.
System Details Note:	DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Language Note:	In English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).