What is They Live by Night / On Dangerous Ground about?

THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, 1948, Warner Bros., 95 min. Nicholas Ray’s directorial debut is a deeply-felt tale of young love struggling to survive in a cruel, unforgiving world. Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell are memorable as star-crossed lovers Bowie and Keechie in this darkly romantic and melancholy adaptation of Edward Anderson’s depression-era crime classic Thieves Like Us. In Ray’s hands, it’s Romeo and Juliet for the film noir era. ON DANGEROUS GROUND, 1952, Warner Bros., 82 min. Dir. Nicholas Ray. A violent, embittered metro cop (Robert Ryan) in hot water with his boss gets sent upstate to help with a small town manhunt. The search leads him into a fateful confrontation with his own off-limits heart when he falls in love with the fugitive’s blind sister (Ida Lupino).

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What is They Live by Night / On Dangerous Ground about?: THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, 1948, Warner Bros., 95 min. Nicholas Ray’s directorial debut is a deeply-felt tale of young love struggling to survive in a cruel, unforgiving world. Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell are memorable as star-crossed lovers Bowie and Keechie in this darkly romantic and melancholy adaptation of Edward Anderson’s depression-era crime classic Thieves Like Us. In Ray’s hands, it’s Romeo and Juliet for the film noir era.

ON DANGEROUS GROUND, 1952, Warner Bros., 82 min. Dir. Nicholas Ray. A violent, embittered metro cop (Robert Ryan) in hot water with his boss gets sent upstate to help with a small town manhunt. The search leads him into a fateful confrontation with his own off-limits heart when he falls in love with the fugitive’s blind sister (Ida Lupino).