Bibliograph

Nobody lives forever, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; original screen play by W.R. Burnett ; produced by Robert Buckner ; directed by Jean Negulesco

Type

Label

Nobody lives forever, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; original screen play by W.R. Burnett ; produced by Robert Buckner ; directed by Jean Negulesco

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Nobody lives forever

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

808625722

Responsibility statement

Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; original screen play by W.R. Burnett ; produced by Robert Buckner ; directed by Jean Negulesco

Runtime

100

Series statement

WB Home Entertainment Group. Film noir archive collection

Summary

"Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) off her feet and out of her sizable inheritance. But it's Nick who starts falling, and now that he wants out of the scam, will that fall turn into a dive? Or will Gladys pay the price for Nick's change of heart? Garfield is his usual astonishing self, but it's Fitzgerald who proves a revelation, as she stabs at the heart of noir's darkness by perfectly impersonating pure innocence. Faye Emerson plays the fatale, as Nick's sultry ex."--Container

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Warners' "Nobody lives forever"

Classification