I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
- Directed by
- Stuart Heisler
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, film noir, romance film, heist film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 31 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A paroled bank robber plans one last heist but finds his past catching up with him. He tries to go straight while getting drawn back into a life of crime and doomed romance.
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What happens
I Died a Thousand Times is a 1955 American CinemaScope Warnercolor film noir directed by Stuart Heisler. The drama stars Jack Palance as paroled bank robber Roy Earle, and Shelley Winters. It co-stars Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin and Gonzalez Gonzalez, with Lon Chaney, Earl Holliman, Perry Lopez, Richard Davalos and Howard St. John I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime noir High Sierra, which was based upon a novel by W. R. Burnett and starred Humphrey Bogart as Earle. Between the two gangster films, the story had also been transformed into the 1949 Western Colorado Territory, with Joel McCrea. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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