Nobody Lives Forever (1946 film)
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| Nobody Lives Forever | |
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
| Produced by | Robert Buckner |
| Written by | W.R. Burnett |
| Starring | John Garfield Geraldine Fitzgerald Walter Brennan Faye Emerson |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Editing by | Rudi Fehr |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | November 1, 1946 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Language | English |
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Nobody Lives Forever is a 1946 black-and-white film based on the novel I Wasn't Born Yesterday by W.R. Burnett.
Former conman Nick Blake, a G.I. returning to the states after World War II, looks up his old girlfriend in an attempt to get the money she has been holding for him since he left to serve in the army. He finds that not only is she dating another man, but the money he gave her to hold is gone. Blake shakes the money from his girlfriends new beau and leaves town.
Blake meets up with old conman Pop Gruber who tries to convince him that he's getting too old to con and that if he keeps it up he'll end up as "an old man selling pencils on the side of the road." Blake ignores him and ends up getting recruited by Pop to work for untrustworthy con artist Doc Ganson.
The plan is to have Blake, a lady's man, romance a rich widow and scheme her out of her fortune. The plan hits a snag when it turns out that Gladys is young and beautiful. Blake falls in love with her and attempts to back out of the "big con". Doc is having none of that and ends up kidnapping the widow in an attempt to get all her money.
The role of Blake was first offered to actor Humphrey Bogart who turned it down.
[edit] Cast
- John Garfield as Nick Blake
- Geraldine Fitzgerald as Gladys Halvorsen
- Walter Brennan as Pop Gruber
- Faye Emerson as Toni Blackburn
- George Coulouris as Doc Ganson
- George Tobias as Al Doyle
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