A terrifying drama of love and murder!
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. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jun 20149/10
Eddie and Joan were two good looking people… You Only Live Once is directed by Fritz Lang and written by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne. It stars Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon and William Gargan. Music is by Alfred Newman and cinematography by Leon Shamroy. He has been pounding on the door of that execution chamber since the day he was born. One of Fritz Lang's first American productions is a cracker-jack proto-noir, a leading light (darkly shaded of course) in the sub-genre of fugitive lovers on the lam pictures. Story leans on the legend of Bonnie and Clyde and finds Fonda as three times jailbird Eddie Taylor. After strings are pulled and promises made, Eddie gets released into the arms of his adoring gal, Jo Graham (Sidney). Determined to go straight and settle down with Jo, Eddie finds a society not ready to forgive and forget, worst still, he's old comrades in criminal arms have cooked something up and it's not going to be good news for Eddie. Cue the Romeo & Juliet factor as two lovers love each other so much they will stop at nothing to be together and to try and make the other one happy. Lang brings his expressionistic bent to the tragi noir tale, d
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Cast
- Sylvia SidneyJoan Graham
- Henry FondaEddie Taylor
- Barton MacLaneStephen Whitney
- Jean DixonBonnie Graham
- William GarganFather Dolan
- Jerome CowanDr. Hill
- Charles 'Chic' SaleEthan
- Margaret HamiltonHester
- Warren HymerBuggsy
- Guinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsRogers
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- Fritz LangDirector
- Gene TowneScreenplay
- C. Graham BakerScreenplay
- Leon ShamroyDirector of Photography
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel MandellEditor
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