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They Live by Night (1949): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

They Live by Night is a 1949 crime, romance, drama film directed by Nicholas Ray. It scores 7.4 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 82 on Metacritic, 6.8 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 8 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 25 of 107 films from 1949 in our catalog and number 281 of 1,511 romance films.

Billed cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wright.

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