More Night Love

In a 5.26 post, Jim Emerson talks about the opening shots to Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night ('49), which is not only one of the greatest love-on-the-run movies ever made, but one of the best film noirs I've seen. 

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The kind of youthful innocence portrayed by the late Fairley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell is extremely rare for a film over 60 years old - extremely vulnerable, extremely real. This isn't movie love, it is love - one of the reasons why They Live By Night works so damn well.