Nobody Lives Forever (1946) On DVD

Actor:        John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Coulouris
Director:    Jean Negulesco
Genre:       Drama
Year:         1946
Studio:     Warner Archive
Length:     100
Released:  July 19, 2012
Rating:       Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:      DVD
Misc:           Black & White
Language:  English
Subtitles  :  N/A

DESCRIPTION:

Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) off her feet and out of her sizable inheritance. But it's Nick who starts falling, and now that he wants out of the scam, will that fall turn into a dive? Or will Gladys pay the price for Nick's change of heart?

Garfield is his usual astonishing self, it's Fitzgerald who proves a revelation, as she stabs at the heart of noir's darkness by perfectly impersonating pure innocence. Faye Emerson plays the fatale, as Nick's sultry ex.