"i won't sell you hope when there isn't any."

You only love once.

it's wild this motherfucker who looks like he was born a full grown pirate with his eyepatch and never ending half cigarette coming out of his mouth directed some of the most earnestly romantic interactions in american movie history. just an absolute uncanny ability to wreck you with scenes that would have made keats give up writing poems cause he couldn't live up to these moments. moments that feel like you're looking up at the clouds on a sunny 74 degree day and all you can hear is the sound of bees buzzing and the breathing of someone you love laying next to you.

Dear Keechie,

Do you have a vacancy for a lover?
I'd like to submit an application.

My affection for you is endless.
When you smile, I glow.
When you cry, I simply perish.

I went to a used book store today and found an old, dog-eared copy of Portnoy's Complaint. Let's run away together and I'll read to you all the dirty bits.

I found this film to be really entertaining and stylish! I loved how the impossible love story between Keechie and Bowie was depicted. There was something timeless about it, that did not feel dated, as it is sometimes the case in classic Hollywood movies. Really, the cinematography was great, Farley Granger was great. Cool film, cool story.

My rating: 7/10

I’ve seen this one before, but for some reason this time I really saw it. So much better than Rebel Without a Cause.

Sold me on Nick Ray as one of cinema's first modernists and on Cathy O'Donnell as Old Hollywood's girl next door. Now where's Marlon Brando when you need him?

I liked the romance the song about the red wagon. I loved the love and wondered why society does not embrace a way to help young folk who get sidetracked to get back to the more socially appropriate version of themselves. This is all about love and what love can do and what it can't do in the bigger picture. Lovely film about money, competition, family and misuse of young people.

A simple country girl falls for a two-bit bank robber who, now newly in love, wants to go straight. And so they try. But what are their chances, really? It's a common, small-time tale, the kind that should be easily forgettable. But the two leads here, and especially the direction of Nicholas Ray, give this noir a bit of a jolt. It's surprisingly affecting. Plus, we get to see Benjamin Franklin as a one-eyed thief; Howard da Silva, who would decades later go on to play the founding father in the musical film "1776," stars here as a bad influence.

Hurt a lot to watch — a train wreck that’s fully conscious it’s going to wreck but despite attempts to avoid the collision it is inevitable. Couldn’t bring myself to finish this one cause it kinda hurt to watch, but logging so I watch again full in near future.

Simply incredible. Nick Ray comes right of the gate with one of the most electrifying movies ever made. Somehow both taut and full of texture from extraneous detail.

This is why I love movies.

Pauline Kael said this movie mistakes social injustice for cosmic fatalism, which is my favorite genre.

Please leave these two alone!