World War II vet William Wyler put his soul into this 1946 drama of veterans returning home, which earned seven Academy Awards.
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Nicholas Ray’s ‘They Live by Night’ on Criterion Channel
“This boy… and this girl… were never properly introduced to the world we live in…,” begins They Live By Night (1948), a bubble of a brief, idealized vision of young love immediately swept away in the urgency and desperation of the prison break in the very next scene. The directorial debut of American filmmaker Nicholas […]