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Actors: Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan, Margaret Hamilton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about You Only Live Once |
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YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE is a movie directed by Fritz Lang in 1937.
Eddie, a career criminal, is leaving the penitentiary. The same day, he marries Joan, the secretary of his lawyer who's fallen in love with him three years before. Filled with hope, Eddie wants to start a new life but things are not so easy as everybody remind him of his past as a convict.
When the police finds Eddie's hat at the scene of a bank robbery, the innocent Eddie is soon arrested and condemned to the electric chair. The day of his execution, Eddie manages to escape while the authorities are just declaring him innocent. It's too late for Eddie who's killed a priest during his escape.
Joan decides to share Eddie's destiny. For the young married couple begins a tragic journey through the U.S. with all the police forces right behind them.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of You Only Live Once |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals (shown sympathetically) on the run
- criminal becomes sensitive
Escape/Rescue?
- escape/rescue from prison/confinement
Lover is...
- criminal/bad doer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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