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

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.

tensemelancholicgrittyslow-burnbleaknoirishsuspensefulsomber

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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