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They Live by Night
Why this pick
A doomed young couple on the run, rendered with the same tender, fatalistic noir romanticism and sympathy for criminals trapped by circumstance.
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MOVIE1950 1h 26m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
At the age of fourteen, Bart Tare robs a hardware store and steals a gun. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby (Morris Carnovsky), despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a fascination with guns even as a child. Flashbacks provide a portrait of Bart who, after he kills a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, is hesitant to harm anyone with guns even though he is a good shot with a pistol.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
John Dall
Bart Tare
Berry Kroeger
Packett
Anabel Shaw
Ruby Tare
Harry Lewis
Sheriff Clyde Boston
Trevor Bardette
Sheriff Boston
David Bair
Dave Allister (age 7)
Stanley Prager
Bluey-Bluey
Anne O'Neal
Miss Augustine Sifert