How Does You Only Live Once (1937) End

1. You Only Live Once, 1937 - Heart of Noir

  • A young Henry Fonda is exceptional as the bitter, hopeless Eddie Taylor, a young criminal framed for murder and sent to Death Row, while Sylvia Sidney plays ...

  • The progenitor of noir’s long streak of “couple on the run” films, Fritz Lang’s You Only Live Once is the apotheosis of American proto-noir, featuring many of noir’s visual and thematic tropes orchestrated beautifully by the man who would become one of the cycle’s most prolific directors. Despite lacking femme fatale, detective, or gangster characters, Lang’s prison escape drama possesses all the darkness and despair of noir to come, including a bleak ending, albeit with the promise of Christian redemption, perhaps made even darker by the innocent romance of the two leads throughout (their early courtship is approved by a frog on a lily pad). A young Henry Fonda is exceptional as the bitter, hopeless Eddie Taylor, a young criminal framed for murder and sent to Death Row, while Sylvia Sidney plays Joan Graham, the only light in Eddie’s life who will later become his wife, the mother of his child, and his accomplice in escaping from prison and avoiding capture by the police. The supporting cast includes Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, and the unmistakable Margaret Hamilton two years before she would gain worldwide acclaim as the Wicked Witch of the West. Visually, Lang is operating at one of his many career peaks here: slick, rainy streets on expansive studio sets; a stunning prison scene in which Eddie’s holding cell radiates with almost cosmic stripes of light in all directions; a final escape through the prison gates, rays of heavenly light leaping from an endless soup of fog. U...

2. Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once: Gripping Lunacy

  • 29 nov 2009 · As Eddie dies, he sees a light or Father Dolan in the distance. A voice cried out “You're free, Eddie.” But perhaps this is a final madness. In ...

  • Eddie (Henry Fonda) and Joan (Sylvia Sidney) on honeymoon, frogs just outside of vision Dear Friends, A couple of nights ago I watched a film I can best characterize as filled with a gripping lunac…

3. You Only Live Once (1937) - Cinema Cats

  • 11 aug 2020 · Synopsis: An ex-con named Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) tries to go straight to support his new wife Joan (Sylvia Sidney) but the law betrays them ...

  • Directed by: Fritz Lang Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An ex-con named Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) tries to go straight to support his new wife Joan (Sylvia Sidney) but the law betrays them both and they end up on the lam. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): […]

4. You Only Live Once - Trailers From Hell

  • 31 jul 2017 · The bleak ending makes a literal jump into the weird fantasy of Lang's silent Destiny, complete with a heavenly choir and forgiveness from ...

  • Fritz Lang continues his take-no-prisoners indictment of America’s curious relationship with crime,  this time with the thesis that an innocent man can become a pawn in cosmic game of injustice. Three-time loser Henry Fonda, the glummest actor in ’30s films, doesn’t mean to rob or kill. But gosh darn it, They Made Him a Criminal....

5. An Early Film Noir Classic: You Only Live Once

6. You Only Live Once - Berkeley - BAMPFA

  • 7 jul 2019 · When three-time loser Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) is about to be released from prison, his lawyer assures the warden that Eddie will make ...

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7. You Only Live Once (1937) | MUBI

  • After she uses her influence to get him released early, they get married and he attempts to go straight. Our take. Austrian-born auteur Fritz Lang's second ...

  • Joan, the secretary to the public defender in a large city, is in love with a career criminal named Eddie. She believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. After she uses her influence to get him released early, they get married and he attempts to go straight.

8. You Only Live Once - Senses of Cinema

  • 27 aug 2008 · The film includes references to violence that were unusual for 1937: Eddie says, cavalierly, that a fellow prisoner “carved up an acrobat” ...

  • Christopher Justice August 2008 CTEQ Annotations on Film

9. A note and reminder on/of You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937)

  • 4 mrt 2021 · The play with sound and silence in last dinner scene in jail, so suspenseful and expressive. The frog scene is a superb instance of how editing ...

  • You Only Live Once is surely one of the great works of cinema. I had a discussion with a friend on Facebook about whether Fury was superior but I haven’t seen that for a decade. I remember I …

10. You Only Live Once (1937) directed by Fritz Lang • Reviews, film + cast

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

11. You Only Live Once – 1937 Lang - The Cinema Archives

  • 26 aug 2021 · Fonda's Taylor is an ex-con and an unfortunate victim of circumstance in a cruel world (Lang's world). They end up as lovers on the run - ...

  • It is a tad stiffer than 1945’s Scarlet Street and 1953’s The Big Heat, but You Only Live Once has an argument to be called Fritz Lang’s greatest American film. You Only Live Once stars Sylvia Sidney (top billing as Joan Graham) and Henry Fonda (as Eddie Taylor). Fonda’s Taylor is an ex-con and

12. You Only Live Once Review (1937)

  • You Only Live Once (1937) review. Director: Fritz Lang. Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan, Jerome Cowan, ...

  • You Only Live Once (1937) review. Director: Fritz Lang. Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan, Jerome Cowan, Charles 'Chic' Sale, Margaret Hamilton, Warren Hymer, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, John Wray, Walter De Palma, Ward Bond, Jack Carson

13. You Only Live Once | Eye Filmmuseum

  • Fritz Lang / US, 1937 / 86 min. One of Fritz Lang's best American films and an early film noir. Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) has served his time and is trying ...

  • One of Fritz Lang’s best American films and an early film noir. Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) has served his time and is trying to lead an ordinary life. His criminal past works against him.

14. You Only Live Once | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Unfortunately, she's fallen madly in love with a criminal by the name of Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda). Convinced that Eddie is a good man with bad luck, she pulls ...

  • Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney) works as the secretary to the public defender. Unfortunately, she's fallen madly in love with a criminal by the name of Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda). Convinced that Eddie is a good man with bad luck, she pulls some strings and gets Eddie released from prison early. The two get married, but while Eddie tries to fly right, he soon discovers he can't change his nature. His past comes knocking at their door, and the couple is forced to go into hiding.

15. You Only Live Once - CinePassion

  • You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang / U.S., 1937):. The dream of escape is a closed circle, magnificently noted in the finale as a silent-film iris that's really ...

  • The dream of escape is a closed circle, magnificently noted in the finale as a silent-film iris that's really the scope view of a state trooper's rifle. (Renoir is more hopeful in La Grande Illusion that same year.) The three-time loser (Henry Fonda) returns to the outside world to marry the public defender's secretary (Sylvia Sidney), the prison chaplain (William Gargan) notices a lingering anxiety: "You don't seem happy for a man the gates are about to open for." The newlyweds are kicked out of the motel once the convict's identity is found, he loses his job and contemplates his beloved's photograph and the pistol under the mattress side by side. Bad choices, bad luck, grids everywhere. "And I wanted to go straight..." Following Fury, an even more Germanic view of America by Fritz Lang. (Frogs in the honeymoon suggest a premonition out of Die Nibelungen, and there's a telling appearance by the poisoned cup from Der Müde Tod.) The terrible surrealism of the armored car robbery (gas masks amid smoke bombs) prepares the elided trial for the framed hero, contrasting newspaper headlines (recalled in Citizen Kane) dissolve to the jeering crowd outside the courtroom. "It's fun to see an innocent man die, isn't it?" The new start denied, the last meal postponed, the governor's pardon unheard. Unsettled textures for emotional states—thick fog and wandering searchlights in the prison yard, unending gloom and rain through the getaway sedan's cracked windshield. Childbirth in the fores...

16. YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE - Film Forum

  • 9 nov 2023 · Ends Today!ALL ... (1937) Ex-con Henry Fonda vows to go ... If you are using assistive technologies like a screen reader or magnifier and

  • YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE Thursday, November 9 URGENT TEXT Directed by Fritz Lang Starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney (1937) Ex-con Henry Fonda vows to go straight for wife Sylvia Sidney – but after a bum rap, the only way out seems to be a prison break. Highlighted by two intense and passionate performances and Lang's Expressionistic direction. 35mm. Approx. 86 min. 8:30 QUOTES “One of the most beautiful movies ever made.” – David Thomson “The finest of Lang’s American movies.” – Pauline Kael

17. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) - Offscreen

  • 6 dec 2017 · New to the Buck a review column, a piece on the justly lauded prototypical road movie/crime spree film, You Only Live Once.

  • *New to the Buck a review column, a piece on the justly lauded prototypical road movie/crime spree film, You Only Live Once. A film laced with brutal irony and poetic force. Fritz Lang at his very best.

18. You Only Live Once (1937) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM

  • When he's framed for murder, an escaped convict returns to crime to protect his wife and child.

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