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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381192223
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 66461
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 29, 1937
Editorial Review:
Description:
Convicted felon Eddie Taylor (Academy Award-winner Henry Fonda) decides to lead the straight life with his devoted girlfriend, Joan (Sylvia Sidney), who arranges for his early parole. She agrees to marry him, but a bank robbert gone bad points accusing fingers at the innocent Eddie. Taking Joan on the lam, Eddie is caught in a cat and mouse chase with the law closing in just a few steps behind them! This haunting and beautifully stylish gem from master director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M) was the first of his remarkable film noir classics including The Big Heat and Clash by Night. Hard-hitting and unforgettable, this exciting tale of crime and revenge inspired countless 'criminal lovers on the run' classics like Bonnie and Clyde and The Getaway but remains the final word in searing, tragic and romantic suspense!
Amazon.com:
Depression-era Hollywood produced a slew of movies about sympathetic criminals victimized by an unfeeling society. No other has the power of Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once, the director's second American film and a masterpiece of fatalism. Henry Fonda is the convict released to a new life (encouraged to go straight, he growls, 'I will if they let me'--not a hopeful note); Sylvia Sidney is his new bride, convinced of his essential goodness. Their homely dreams are crushed by a hostile world, which Lang's scrupulously controlled direction turns into a series of dead ends. In particular, the last half of the picture--a prison break and cross-country ramble inspired by Bonnie and Clyde--is an exceptionally intense downward spiral, swift with predestined momentum. While Fonda and Sidney are unforgettable in their echt-Thirties forms, Lang is the star, proving the director of M and Metropolis had lost none of his edge. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Story of Eddie and Joan
The film begins at the Hall of Justice in the Public Defender's office. Joan talks to a person before leaving on vacation. She is in love with Eddie Taylor, who has been convicted of crimes three times. The next time it will be life. Joan greets him on his release from prison, they are married. They are not wanted at the Valley Tavern. Eddie is fired from his truck driving job. Now he has to pay the rest of the down payment on the house he bought. He can't find another job. Next there is a robbery ... Read More
Rating:  - Gripping Fritz Lang Drama
You Only Live Once is a dark little Fritz Lang drama from 1937. It's the story of Eddie Taylor, a man falsely accused of committing a heinous bank robbery (a crime which we believe he committed until a crucial moment later in the film), and his devoted wife Joan, with whom he goes on the run for several weeks in an attempt to go to the border (they never do reach the border, do they?). What makes this such a wonderful film are the subtleties, the grocer at the beginning complaining about the police ... Read More
Rating: - Nice work
This is not one of Mr. Lang's great films. Although not bad, it does give an impression of being shot with a little budget and not much time. The script is not talented. The story is very interesting and would have made an excellent Hitchcock movie (actually Hitchcock did make something alike) if more care had been dispensed.
Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are excellent -specially she. But the rest of the cast are given cartoonish and exagerated roles as bad 'guys'. I believe that ... Read More
Rating:  - "And I wanted to go straight."
Not as good as I had hoped. A young Henry Fonda has bad luck and a kind heart. As a kid he saw a neighborhood boy torturing a frog so he beat the kid up and got sent to juvie. Now as an adult he's getting out of prison for the third time. He swears to his girlfriend that he's going straight and he does but his record comes back to haunt him and he goes to death row for a crime he didn't commit.
There's too much romance stuff going on in this film, the crime scenes are exciting and make ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting early Lang social commentary
Dark and broodingly pessimistic, Fritz Lang's second Hollywood movie is a love story of sorts. Made in 1937 and set in the present day (ie, the Depression), Lang has favorite actress Sylvia Sidney fall for `three-time loser' Henry Fonda. Sidney is, conveniently, the pretty young secretary of the local public defender, while Fonda is a chronic convict who robs, kidnaps, and murders for the gal he loves. Or something like that - tag lines tend to exaggerate things. In any event, the warden reminds Fonda ... Read More
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