Back Els amants de la nit Catalan They Live By Night Welsh Sie leben bei Nacht German Los amantes de la noche Spanish آنها در شب زندگی میکنند Persian He elävät öisin Finnish Les Amants de la nuit French Os amantes da noite Galician La donna del bandito Italian 夜の人々 (1948年の映画) Japanese
| They Live by Night | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Nicholas Ray |
| Screenplay by | Charles Schnee Nicholas Ray |
| Based on | Thieves Like Us 1937 novel by Edward Anderson |
| Produced by | John Houseman |
| Starring | Farley Granger Cathy O'Donnell Howard Da Silva |
| Cinematography | George E. Diskant |
| Edited by | Sherman Todd |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release dates | |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
They Live by Night is a 1948 American film noir directed by Nicholas Ray in his directorial debut and starring Cathy O'Donnell and Farley Granger. Based on Edward Anderson's Depression-era novel Thieves Like Us, the film follows a young fugitive who falls in love with a woman and attempts to begin a life with her.[2]
The film opened theatrically in London in August 1948 under the title The Twisted Road and was released in the United States by RKO Radio Pictures as They Live by Night in November 1949. Although the film received favorable reviews from film critics, it was a box-office failure, losing the studio $445,000 (equivalent to $5.7 million in 2023[3]).
Although the film is widely considered as the prototype for the "couple on the run" genre and the forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the story was first depicted in Fritz Lang's 1937 film You Only Live Once, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney. Director Jim Jarmusch cites the film as one of the influences on no wave cinema and his work in general.[4] Robert Altman directed another adaptation of the novel in 1974 using the original title of the novel, Thieves Like Us.
- ^ a b "They Live by Night". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on June 7, 2019.
- ^ [1] They Live by Night at Criterion
- ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ Video Interview with Jim Jarmusch on KGSM MediaCache