They live by night , the first film he shot Nicholas Ray can be seen as a bridge between only live once (1937), directed by Fritz Lang, and other later films as Daemon weapons (1949) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), held respectively by Joseph H. Lewis and Arthur Penn, as it shares with all the issue of runaway lovers couple struggling to escape their tragic fate. 
Nicholas Ray, a personal friend of the film's producer, John Houseman was hired by him to improve the script based on the extensive knowledge that the author of Knock on Any Door had on the period of the Great Depression, and ended up seeing directing the film, thus opening, brilliantly, one of the most filmographies interesting history of cinema with films like In a Lonely Place (1949), Johnny Guitar (1953) or Rebel Without a Cause (1955), to quote a brief part of his career . Not in vain Jean Luc Godard said about Ray " if the film ceased to exist, Nicholas Ray just gives the impression that it can be reinvented, and what is more, want to do." With They live by night Ray opened his career brilliantly. At the start of the film, just before the start of the credits, we see a closeup of the two main characters, formed by the late Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell by while we see the following text overlay "this guy and this girl were never properly presented in society, its history, they live by night", to immediately move to a flat shot from a helicopter in which we see a jeep carrying four men, three outlaws and a hostage to be undone immediately, fleeing across the field. From here the viewer can get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe contrast it makes your film night and day, identified the first with the hiding and escape imprisonment, as opposed to the second, symbolizing the peaceful life and legal. 
Nicholas Ray chooses to emphasize the intimate side of the leak of the two lovers, and pass by potential situations of suspense as the bank robbery, which is at all times outside the field. Are abundant close to both characters, which can be seen in their eyes, and dialogue in a subdued light, away from the hustle and bustle of daytime life. At the same time Ray played with various symbols, like watches that are given characters who would come to symbolize the limited time they spend together, or the bars through which filmed several times the character played magnificently by Farley Granger . In Granger sense that we see looking through a few bars hidden in the bush at night, the character played by Cathy O'Donnell in the first meeting between the two, we can also see this situation through a car, or after the head of a bed. 
Apart from the superb direction of Nicholas Ray , which is enhanced by the excellent black and white photograph of George E. Diskant , especially the night scenes that can them claimed that breath poetic history. In They live by night can find other items of interest such as excellent performance of the two main characters, very convincing in their dialogue, in their eyes and their silences, which manage to convey perfectly the viewer a sense of longing for everyday severed by the fatal adverse circumstances, or the excellent script signed by Charles Schnee and own Nicholas Ray from a novel by Edward Anderson , which would be amended several years later by Robert Altman .
They live by night is without any doubt, a masterpiece of black gender, where gender-related elements can be a drain prison, several robberies, and especially the tragic fate of a love condemned by society and circumstances to be a sad end. Just as in only live once, the demon of weapons or Bonnie and Clyde .
They live by night
Year: 1948
Country: United States
Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Ian Wolfe, Helen Craig, Will Wright, Harry Harvey, Marie Bryant, William Phipps, Will Lee, Jim Nolan, Teddy Infuhr.
Screenplay: Charles Schnee, adapted by Nicholas Ray, from a novel by Edward Anderson.
Photo: George E. Black and white Dikant
Music: Leigh Harline
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Producer: John Houseman
Director: Nicholas Ray
DEDICATED TO POST REPORT OF THE RECENTLY DECEASED FARLEY GRANGER.
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