Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don't work out, and they both go on the lam.... (Full plot summary below)
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Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don't work out, and they both go on the lam.
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| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanIt stands as a clear precursor for such revered love-on-the-run films as Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands and They Live By Night, but is perhaps better than any of them. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonFritz Lang's second American film... remains one of his all-time greatest. |
| User ReviewMartin TA great Film Noir made by the Master Fritz Lang it shows how Criminals was made by the Society he was trying to choose the Right Way |
| User ReviewDavid HA great Film Noir made by the Master Fritz Lang it shows how Criminals was made by the Society he was trying to choose the Right Way |
| User ReviewWalter MLes themes chers a Lang magnifies dans un film absolument splendide. |
| User ReviewJames SA Fritz Lang masterpiece dealing convincingly with its themes and storyline. Although suffering slightly from an overemphasis on pleas for justice and a few minor plot holes, there is little to dirty the pristine quality of the film. |
| User ReviewMichael MWhat are you talking about? Slow moving? MISCAST?!?! I think you should watch it again and realise you are wrong. |
| User ReviewKatie RBefore "Bonnie and Clyde," "Gun Crazy," and "Natural Born Killers," there was this movie about doomed lovers on the lam. Another in a long line of important Fritz Lang crime pictures. |
| User ReviewJames HA great Film Noir made by the Master Fritz Lang it shows how Criminals was made by the Society he was trying to choose the Right Way |
| User ReviewHec TFirst and best of its kind as a lovers' getaway movie. Fritz Lang effectively teams up Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney to create an unmissable film that brings life to Eddie Taylor, a man who wishes to go straight after a three-year siting in jail, and Joan Graham, his faithful lover who represents fatality through the continuously growing romantic idea which the film embraces. The narrative is developed in a loathing environment of criticism, prejudice and discrimination from society which is, altogether, the greatest antagonist of the film and the reason the starring couple is isolated and pushed to embark on a seemingly endless journey. In "YOLO", Lang brings for the second time his austrian-german style to Hollywood while successfully merging it into Americana, as a late historic criticism of the depression era. With the help of his characteristic and remarkable expressionist touches, he makes the film a thrilling experience, by making the audience emphasize with whats dealt by the characters. By all of its elements, "YOLO" results in an astonishing directing work, notable cinematic moments are found in death scenes which are always surrounded by stifling atmospheres, first in a well-crafted bank robbery scene and later in a murder scene of an innocent bystander which ends up being the tragic point of breakthrough in the plot. A gorgeous poetic idea works from beginning to end, tragedy seems the only resolution, not because it's already written, but because fatality works as a form of destiny. Eddie and Joan might never find happiness, but in the end good triumphs over evil, and if somehow the audience deviates from this thought, Lang assures we are guided back to that point of view of poetic justice with the very last quote of the film. "YOLO" tells a thrilling love story worth of portraying in the history of cinema. It will be an input and reference for the upcoming films with similar nature that later would become a genre within a genre which will bring installments that goes from Gun Crazy (1950), passing through the well-known Bonnie & Clyde (1967) and up to the nowadays critical acclaimed The End of the F****** World (2018) TV show, all of them with the same exciting and delightful idea of two lovers which are at the same time partners in crime. |
