They Live By Night Blu-ray

'They Live By Night' Director: Nicholas Ray (1948) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | Restoration | Includes commentary, critical analysis, short piece with filmmakers and critics discussing the film, essay

Ray kicked off his movie directing career with this influential example of the lovers on the run/doomed relationship crime drama. On breaking out of prison with some bank robbers a young, wide-eyed fugitive meets an innocent young woman who sees to the injuries he picked up in the escape. They form an immediate bond and dream of a future together but with the cops looking for them and the hardened escapees to contend with their fate is sealed.