4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 8, 2015
There are two types of lover-on-the-run narratives. There’s the Bonnie and Clyde/Gun Crazy extravaganza full of shoot-outs and bloodshed. Then you have the more sensitive approach of a film like They Drive By Night. You Only Live Once fits this second category thanks to two bolstering performa read more
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 8, 2015
There are two types of lover-on-the-run narratives. There’s the Bonnie and Clyde/Gun Crazy extravaganza full of shoot-outs and bloodshed. Then you have the more sensitive approach of a film like They Drive By Night. You Only Live Once fits this second category thanks to two bolstering performa read more
One of my favorite films from 2013 (my second favorite in fact) was David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. The 70′s era, Texas set film was compared in many reviews to Terence Mallick’s The Badlands and Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us. But an earlier film, Fritz Lang’s You read more
You Only Live Once Directed by Fritz Lang Written by Gene Towne and C. Graham Baker 1937/USA Walter Wanger Productions Repeat viewing Fritz Lang continues with the man pursued by an uncaring society theme explored in M and Fury. While this does not hit the heights achieved by those films, read more
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937)
The public defender's secretary
and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of
disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Fritz Lang’s
second American feature, the first being Fury,
continues on building the read more
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Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney) works as a secretary to a big city public defender, Stephen Whitney (Barton MacLane). Joan is in love with a criminal named Eddie (Henry Fonda) who, luckily, is allowed to leave prison on probation with Stephen’s help.
Fresh out of the slammer, Eddi read more
