Slideshow
PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
6:30
Thursday, November 9
Directed by Fritz Lang
Starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney
(1937) Ex-con Henry Fonda vows to go straight for wife Sylvia Sidney – but after a bum rap, the only way out seems to be a prison break. Highlighted by two intense and passionate performances and Lang's Expressionistic direction. 35mm. Approx. 86 min.
Reviews
“One of the most beautiful movies ever made.”
– David Thomson
“The finest of Lang’s American movies.”
– Pauline Kael
“At once a great prison drama… and a powerful attack on the death penalty and the stigmatisation of ex-convicts… Fonda has rarely been better.”
– Phillip French, The Guardian