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Though a critical and financial disaster, today Bigger Than Life is considered Nicholas Ray's masterpiece and very ahead of its time. The French magazine Cahiers du Cinema named it one of the 10 best films of the 50s.
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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 (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" [1] and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," [1] Ray was considered an iconoclastic ...
1. They Live by Night. 1948 1h 35m Passed. 7.4 (9.4K) Rate. 82 Metascore. An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning. Director Nicholas Ray Stars Cathy O'Donnell Farley Granger Howard Da Silva. 2. A Woman's Secret.
Jun 30, 2017 · James Dean, Johnny Guitar and Film Noir: The 7 Essential Films of Nicholas Ray. The Hollywood rebel wasn't just ahead of his own time, he was ahead ours. In just eight years, he made seven...
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On Dangerous Ground (1951) Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir. Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case. Directors: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper.
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Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar.
