Back in the Prohibition days, when real gangsters were feted like tabloid celebrities, Hollywood jumped on the band-wagon with a series of films loosely-based-on-something-vaguely-resembling-true-stories. This film is not usually mentioned in company with your Scarface, Little Caesar et al, possibly because it came along a few years later, but I suspect because it is a bit more considered and more artful than those other crowd-pleasing shoot-em-ups. You can decide for yourself as the 75th anniversary edition of You Only Live Once is released on DVD (although, annoyingly, not on Blu-Ray), today!
Henry Fonda – still some years away from being type-cast as America’s pre-eminent good-guy – plays three-time loser, Eddie Taylor, leaving prison under a shadow … If he’s imprisoned again, it’ll be the chair. As he leaves it’s obvious that he’s loved by the prisoners and warders alike – But all he’s interested in is Joan, the...
Henry Fonda – still some years away from being type-cast as America’s pre-eminent good-guy – plays three-time loser, Eddie Taylor, leaving prison under a shadow … If he’s imprisoned again, it’ll be the chair. As he leaves it’s obvious that he’s loved by the prisoners and warders alike – But all he’s interested in is Joan, the...
- 6/4/2012
- by John Ashbrook
- Obsessed with Film
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