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.
Direction
Ray's debut—he literally invented the 'lovers on the run' visual language.
Cinematography
George Diskant turns cheap sets into dreamlike limbo of longing.
Acting
Granger and O'Donnell play young love so raw it hurts.
Director
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
Farley Granger
Arthur "Bowie" Bowers
Howard Da Silva
Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
Jay C. Flippen
Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield
Helen Craig
Mattie
Will Wright
Mobley
William Phipps
Young Farmer
Ian Wolfe
Hawkins
Harry Harvey
Hagenheimer
Will Lee
Jeweler
James Nolan
Schreiber
Charles Meredith
Comm. Hubbell
Teddy Infuhr
Alvin
Byron Foulger
Lambert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
RKO shelved it for two years, then buried it as a B-picture. Ray's genius was immediately obvious to other directors.
This single film contains the DNA of Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, True Romance, and every 'beautiful losers' romance since.
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