DVD

They Live by Night. At long last, Nicholas Ray’s 1948 feature-film debut, a sensitive screen version of Edward Anderson’s Thieves Like Us, has made it to home video in a meticulously remastered version. The cast–Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, Howard Da Silva, and Jay C. Flippen–is impeccable, but it’s Ray’s intensely personal direction that makes this rural film noir so memorable. The DVD also includes another Granger/O’Donnell pairing, Side Street (TT).