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You Only Live Once is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda. Considered an early film noir, [3] the film was the second directed by Lang in the United States. [4]
You Only Live Once: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon. 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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Fritz Lang
- 1937-01-29
Fritz Lang's second American film, You Only Live Once (1937), is often characterized as among the very finest of his post-German career. In it he manages to achieve a rare balance between hard-edged social commentary, a moving love story, and expressive visual design.
- Fritz Lang, Robert Lee
- Sylvia Sidney
A young Henry Fonda is exceptional as the bitter, hopeless Eddie Taylor, a young criminal framed for murder and sent to Death Row, while Sylvia Sidney plays Joan Graham, the only light in Eddie’s life who will later become his wife, the mother of his child, and his accomplice in escaping from prison and avoiding capture by the police.
Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once. Fonda plays an ex-convict who can't get a break on the "outside"....
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- Sylvia Sidney
- Fritz Lang
- Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby.
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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. Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city.