Friday, 31 March 2023

You Only Live Once (1937 Fritz Lang)

Lang's 'Romeo and Juliet', with the doomed couple ex con Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney. Tragic and ironic with Fonda killing a priest and escaping from jail, not believing he's been cleared and is a free man. Interesting touches in lyrical film. 

Photographed by Leon Shamroy, edited by Daniel Mandell, music by Alfred Newman.

That is a young uncredited Jack Carson. With Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan.



Despite line up behind camera it's actually a Walter Wanger production, released by United Artists.

I think it was in this film that we were impressed with a shot of a car driving away at speed that reminded me of the scene in Daisy Miller where the carriage abruptly departs from the Colosseum.

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