You Only Live Once

1937 PG-13 1h 26m

7.1 / 10 194

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7.1/10

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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.

Director Fritz Lang

Writers

Gene Towne C. Graham Baker

Stars

Sylvia Sidney Henry Fonda Barton MacLane

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Monk Mendall (uncredited)

Ward Bond

Casey - Guard (uncredited)

Jack Carson

Attendant in First Gas Station

Newspaper Editor (uncredited)

Jonathan Hale

District Attorney (uncredited)

Ethan Laidlaw

Tommy, a Prison Guard (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Plainclothesman (uncredited)

James Flavin

State Trooper (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Armored Car Guard Unloading Money (uncredited)

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Earl Askam

Corridor Guard (uncredited)

Hooper Atchley

Teletype Operator (uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

Rafferty - Guard (uncredited)

Wade Boteler

Pat - Policeman with Package (uncredited)

Al Bridge

Guard (uncredited)

Don Brodie

Compositor (uncredited)

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Raymond Brown

Engineer (uncredited)

George Burton

Convict Waiter (uncredited)

Jack Cheatham

Prison Hospital Guard (uncredited)

Bank Guard (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)

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Mary Anne Durkin

Warden's 14-Year-Old Daughter (uncredited)

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Malcolm Graham

Warden's Secretary (uncredited)

Frank Hagney

Plainclothesman (uncredited)

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Al K. Hall

Man in Auto Court Office (uncredited)

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Ben Hall

Messenger with Package (uncredited)

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Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian

Williams' Assistant (uncredited)

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Jack Herrick

Convict Watching Baseball Game (uncredited)

Herbert Heywood

Brakeman in Diner (uncredited)

Al Hill

Attendant in Second Gas Station (uncredited)

Male Nurse (uncredited)

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Wally Maher

Attendant in Second Gas Station (uncredited)

Frank Mills

Man Telling Eddie of Phone Call (uncredited)

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Ted Oliver

State Trooper (uncredited)

William Pawley

Mr. Williams (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Corridor Guard (uncredited)

Sparks - Man in Diner (uncredited)

Mickey Rentschler

Ten-Year-Old Boy (uncredited)

Chess-Playing Convict (uncredited)

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Robert St. Angelo

Corridor Guard (uncredited)

Amzie Strickland

Young Woman (uncredited)

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Henry Taylor

Kozderonas - Apple Vendor (uncredited)

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Monte Vandergrift

Traffic Policeman (uncredited)

Max Wagner

Dan - Corridor Guard (uncredited)

Kathrin Clare Ward

Blonde Cook in Diner (uncredited)

E. Alyn Warren

Prison Chef (uncredited)

Lillian West

Mother (uncredited)

Charles C. Wilson

Police Inspector (uncredited)

Harry Wilson

Convict Watching Baseball Game (uncredited)

Crime Drama Romance

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John Chard 14 Jun 2014

9/10

Eddie and Joan were two good looking people… You Only Live Once is directed by Fritz Lang and written by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne. It stars Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon and William Gargan. Music is by Alfred Newman and cinematography by Leon Shamroy. He has been pounding on the door of that execution chamber since the day he was born. One of Fritz Lang's ...