What to expect
Joseph H. Lewis gives the lovers’ momentum an unusual immediacy, most famously through a bank robbery staged in a long take from inside their car.
How to ease in
Watch how quickly partnership becomes pressure. The excitement comes from coordination, but each successful escape reduces the number of ordinary choices still available.
Heads-up
A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes firearms, robbery, murder, coercive relationship dynamics, police violence, and fatalism.
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They are most alive when moving together and least free each time movement succeeds. I watch romance and escape close around them as the same trap.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Screenplay
- MacKinlay Kantor · Dalton Trumbo
- Production
- Maurice King · Frank King · King Bros. Productions, Inc.
- Cinematography
- Russell Harlan
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