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- 'Rebel Without a Cause' Released: 1955. "I've got the bullets!" James Dean delivers a career-defining performance here as Jim Stark, a disillusioned teenager who struggles to find his place in the world.
- 'In a Lonely Place' Released: 1950. "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." Humphrey Bogart stars in this noir film as Dixon Steele, a troubled screenwriter with a penchant for violence and self-destructiveness.
- 'Johnny Guitar' Released: 1954. "A man can lie, steal... and even kill. But as long as he hangs on to his pride, he's still a man." This Western centers on Vienna (Joan Crawford), a strong-willed saloon owner who finds herself at odds with the local townsfolk and a ruthless cattle baron, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge).
- 'They Live by Night' Released: 1948. They Live By Night was Ray's directorial debut and he hit the ground running, serving up a poetic and existential noir film that pioneered several of the genre's tropes.
Nicholas Ray. Director: Rebel Without a Cause. Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent.
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Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Jul 21, 2020 · Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather ...
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Ray (2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Ray is a 2004 American biographical musical drama film focusing on 30 years in the life of soul musician Ray Charles. [ a] The independently produced film was co-produced and directed by Taylor Hackford; it was written by James L. White from a story by Hackford and White.
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Professor. Robert B. Ray is the author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1980 (Princeton University Press); The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy (Harvard University Press); How a Film Theory Got Lost, and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies (Indiana University Press); The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (Oxford University Press ...
