On Dangerous Ground News

In the run-up to Turner Classic Movies ' 100th-birthday salute to Robert Ryan on Wednesday, November 11th, TCM's Movie Morlocks are hosting a Robert Ryan blogathon .

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the "Death Hunt" cue from Bernard Herrmann's score for Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground : Go here to see the main titles from On Dangerous Ground .

I think I saw Wagon Master in 1970 when Robert S. Birchard showed his print at UCLA.

New York-based cinephiles, take note: In a Lonely Place , starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, opens Friday at the Film Forum for a nine-day run.

In the spring of 1958, director Nicholas Ray was tumbling a bit commercially. Like fellow Wisconsin native Orson Welles, Ray began with a first picture, the young lovers on the lam film noir They Live by Night , where he had the greatest control of his career and, despite frequent brilliance, it was an almost constant struggle afterward.

In the spring of 1958, director Nicholas Ray was tumbling a bit commercially. Like fellow Wisconsin native Orson Welles, Ray began with a first picture, the young lovers on the lam film noir They Live by Night , where he had the greatest control of his career and, despite frequent brilliance, it was an almost constant struggle afterward.

Among the finest of Ray's work for RKO, this moving noir thriller stars Robert Ryan as an intelligent but brutal and fucked-up New York cop sent upstate to track down a killer and who finds salvation when he falls in love with the perp's sister.

IT'S been 30 years since the death on June 16, 1979, of Nicholas Ray, the hard-living Ameri can filmmaker lionized by the French New Wave.