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Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America’s outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O’Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie’s fellow outlaws, who aren’t about to let him go straight, they realize there’s nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider’s sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come.
Original Release
08/06/1948
US Release
11/03/1949
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Cathy O'Donnell | Keechie / Catherine "Keechie" Mobley |
Farley Granger | Bowie / Arthur "Bowie" Bowers |
Howard Da Silva | Chickamaw / Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley |
Jay C. Flippen | T-Dub / Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield |
Helen Craig | Mattie |
Will Wright | Mobley |
William Phipps | Young Farmer |
Ian Wolfe | Hawkins |
Harry Harvey | Hagenheimer |
Marie Bryant | Singer |
Directors
Writers
Nicholas Ray, Charles Schnee, Edward Anderson
Cast
Name | Character |
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Cathy O'Donnell | Keechie / Catherine "Keechie" Mobley |
Farley Granger | Bowie / Arthur "Bowie" Bowers |
Howard Da Silva | Chickamaw / Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley |
Jay C. Flippen | T-Dub / Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield |
Helen Craig | Mattie |
Will Wright | Mobley |
William Phipps | Young Farmer |
Ian Wolfe | Hawkins |
Harry Harvey | Hagenheimer |
Marie Bryant | Singer |
Will Lee | Jeweler |
James Nolan | Schreiber |
Charles Meredith | Comm. Hubbell |
Teddy Infuhr | Alvin |
Byron Foulger | Lambert |
Guy Beach | Plumber |
Jane Allen | Woman |
Paul Bakanas | Shadow |
Regan Callais | Young Wife |
Lewis Charles | Auto Lot Attendant |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dore Schary | Executive Producer |
John Houseman | Producer |