Edward Anderson (source), Nicholas Ray (director) THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948) Photo by Oliver Sigurdson

[Los Angeles]: RKO Pictures, [1948]. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, fine. With mimeographed text and photographer Oliver Sigurdson’s stamp on verso.

A touching portrait of the two young (and doomed) lovers in Nick Ray’s first directorial effort, a film noir adapted from Edward Anderson’s book Thieves like Us.