Rushed

This article deals with the film by Fritz Lang. For the movie by Jack Starret with the alternative title of the same name, see Run, Angel, Run .

Movie
German title	Rushed
Original title	You only live once
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1937
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Fritz Lang
script	C. Graham Baker Gene Towne
production	Walter Wanger
music	Alfred Newman
camera	Leon Shamroy
cut	Daniel Mandell
occupation
Sylvia Sidney : Joan Graham Henry Fonda : Eddie Taylor Barton MacLane : Stephen Whitney Jean Dixon : Bonnie Graham William Gargan : Father Dolan Jerome Cowan : Dr. Hill Chic Sale : Ethane Margaret Hamilton : Hester Warren Hymer : Muggsy Guinn Williams : Rogers John Wray : Prison Director Wheeler Walter de Palma : Monk Mendall

Rushed (Original title: You Only Live Once ) is an American film by the director Fritz Lang from 1937 . Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney can be seen in the leading roles . After Blinde Wut (1936), this was the second film that Fritz Lang shot in Hollywood.

action

Attorney General Joan Graham falls in love with the convict Eddie Taylor and, with the help of her boss, achieves his parole. Eddie then tries to start a middle-class life by marrying Joan and taking a job as a truck driver, which he soon loses. When six people are killed in a brutal bank robbery, Eddie is suspected. He is sentenced to death innocently.

Shortly before his execution, the real perpetrators are determined, whereupon Eddie is pardoned. Before he can be formally informed of this, he breaks out of the detention center with the help of a smuggled weapon. In doing so, he accidentally kills the prison chaplain. He seeks out his wife, who is pregnant by him and insists on accompanying him on his escape. While driving in a stolen car, their child is born. Joan is staying with her sister. Both try to get to Canada, but are caught by the police near the border and shot.

background

Henry Fonda recalled that he and Sylvia Sidney had been annoyed by Lang's attention to detail while filming. The two had to wait a whole day for a scene to be shot, as Lang had previously repeated a shot without an actor many times in which the camera moves from a marriage certificate to dirty cutlery. For hours he kept arranging the cutlery differently.

criticism

"Psychological differentiation, a dense atmosphere and the analytical-critical portrayal of a mass hysteria born of stupidity and narrow-mindedness" make Hetzt into a "classic of its genre", according to the film service . Only the end of the film was "incredibly forgiving".

François Truffaut writes: "The very idea that nobody has the right to condemn anyone, that everyone is guilty and all victims, illustrates with stubborn genius the work of Fritz Lang, in which You Only Live Once is one of the most important pivotal points."

Web links

• Rushed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rushed in the lexicon of international film

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Dürrenmatt: Fritz Lang - life and work . Basel 1982, p. 126 .
2. ↑ Rushed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 12, 2017 .  
3. ^ Dieter Dürrenmatt: Fritz Lang - life and work . Basel 1982, p. 125 .