Nicholas Ray Trailers
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Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.
His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death.
During his lifetime, Ray was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause, twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d'Or for The Savage Innocents (1960). Three of his films were ranked by Cahiers du Cinéma in their Annual Top 10 Lists.
Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well regarded and he was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "... there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."
Most Popular Nicholas Ray Trailers
Total trailers found: 44
11 October 1961
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified.
28 October 1958
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials.
28 February 1945
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism.
11 September 1958
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws.
20 March 1960
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
13 January 1949
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works.
01 October 1980
Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish.
22 February 1949
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
01 November 1949
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
19 March 1946
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
30 September 1975
Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to stardom in films such as Rebel Without a Cause.
27 October 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems.
15 March 1979
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
01 December 1952
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.
10 October 1974
Experimental anthology film consisting of nine segments - Contrasts, The Janitor, The Plumber, Another Wet Dream, The Happy Necrophiliacs, On a Sunday Afternoon, A Face, Politfuck, Flames - all focused on 70s sex, love and politics.
25 June 1964
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
28 August 1951
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat.
13 December 1951
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman.
11 June 2006
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino.
17 May 1950
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
26 May 1954
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang.
12 October 1949
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
22 March 1957
Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri.
03 October 2011
Documentary about director/artist Nicholas Ray and his time as a University professor
04 September 1974
Nicholas Ray short film from 1974, originally a segment from the anthology film "Wet Dreams."
24 June 1977
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman.
06 May 1963
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.
11 May 1945
A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War information, for overseas distribution.
24 October 1952
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
29 April 1955
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
17 January 1975
A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.
06 May 2024
A scene from Ray's They Live by Night reimagined in the style of Matsumoto's Demons. With sound improved from Wilder Demons #1.
11 April 1952
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord.
20 November 1956
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
27 January 1967
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death.
01 January 1978
A short film, this is technically the last film Nicholas Ray directed.
16 April 1977
An interview with the American film director which was first broadcast on the CBS-TV television series "Camera Three.
10 May 1973
Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton.
28 September 1950
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family.
28 August 1957
During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission.
26 November 1990
Jeanette Dyrkjær, better known as Jeanette Starion, was a sought after nude and porn model in the 1980s.
07 March 1956
Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother Marco into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash.
01 January 2005
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film.
