Nobody Lives Forever / Each Dawn I Die

NOBODY LIVES FOREVER, 1946, Warner Bros., 100 min. John Garfield is a shady ex-GI hooked up in a plot to bilk a war widow (Geraldine Fitzgerald). When he falls for her, the gang wants them both dead. Director Jean Negulesco ladles atmospherics onto the script by crime specialist W. R. Burnett, who here turns in one of his lighter, more romantic efforts.

EACH DAWN I DIE, 1939, Warner Bros., 92 min. Dir. William Keighley. James Cagney portrays a crusading reporter who is framed for murder and gets jugged in the penitentiary with career criminal George Raft. Cagney attempts to remain a lawful citizen to gain his freedom but can endure only just so many double-crosses. Stanley Ridges, “Slapsie Maxie” Rosenbloom, Paul Hurst, Louis Jean Heydt and Edward Pawley are doing hard time in the prison jute mill alongside Cagney.