Nicholas Ray
Director, Actor
- They Live By Night (w/ Side Street) (1948-1950)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray, Anthony Mann
Feat. Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell
- Nicholas Ray's terrific, heartfelt tragi–noir fluctuates between high tension and sweet romance, underpinning the fate of criminal lovers…
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame
- Hot–headed Hollywood writer Humphrey Bogart is suspected of murder by his new girlfriend and old army pal detective. Gutsy psycho–drama…
- On Dangerous Ground (1951)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond…
- Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles.
As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…
- Lusty Men, The (1952)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy
- A nicely close–to–the–ground take on the life of the rodeo rider – and one of Wim Wenders' favourite films – this…
- Johnny Guitar (1953)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Sterling Hayden…
- Cowgirls Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge come head to head over the men they love in this wild Western soap opera, brimming with quirky…
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
- James Dean's intense portayal of an alienated youth from a wealthy family opened the eyes of a generation and catapulted him to stardom. One of the…
- Bigger Than Life (1956)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
- Enormously potent, landmark melodrama is also a career high for James Mason: he plays a suburban family man struck down with a rare heart disease,…
- Bitter Victory (1957)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman…
- Superior war drama is set around a WW2 mission by British commandos in North Africa, trying to retrieve vital papers from a German HQ before…
- True Story of Jesse James, The (1957)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange…
- Remake of the 1939 film Jesse James, but hardly a true story, as it is only loosely based on the notorious outlaw's life and his relationship to…
- Party Girl (1958)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb…
- Delicious Nicholas Ray–directed potboiler finds bum–legged Robert Taylor trying to cut ties with the mob. A slinky Cyd Charisse (tearing…
- Savage Innocents, The (1960)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Yoko Tani
- Curiously compelling ethnological drama from dir. Ray in which an eskimo (Quinn) wages an ongoing battle for survival in the Arctic environment and…
- King of Kings (1961)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Robert Ryan…
- Faithful, intelligent telling of the life of Christ, with Jeffrey Hunter in the robes of JC, benefits from a lesser–known cast. Orson Welles…
- 55 Days at Peking (1963)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Charlton Heston, David Niven, Ava Gardner
- Set in the turmoil of 1900 China, during the Boxer Rebellion, this splashy Hollywood epic succeeds on the strength of its stylish visuals and…
- American Friend, The (1976)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Bruno Ganz, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray
- Twisting thriller stars Bruno Ganz as an apparently terminally–ill man duped into murder. Dennis Hopper plays the American 'friend', while…
- Lightning Over Water (Nick's Movie) (1980)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Nicholas Ray
- A disturbing portrait of Hollywood film director Nicholas Ray's final days, shot by fan and friend Wim Wenders.
Although he made some of the most…