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You Only Live Once (1937) -- F. Lang
The deck is stacked
against Henry Fonda as an ex-con trying to go straight and coming up against
stigma and reduced opportunities at every turn. Fortunately, he's got Sylvia
Sidney to love and support him. However, things take a turn for the worse when
he's accused of a bank robbery in which six innocent people died. Suddenly
Fritz Lang takes us from an ordinary social problem picture (of sorts) onto
death row and then into Bonnie & Clyde territory. His expressionistic skiils
serve him well and there are some amazing chiaroscuro shots, foreshadowing the
film noir movement to come (in style and theme).
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