Director: Nicholas Ray
A Woman’s Secret
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Written and produced by the esteemed Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), Ray’s second feature for RKO concerns aging, cosmopolitan singer Marian …
Bigger Than Life
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Moving to 20th Century Fox for this indictment of traditional masculinity in the American home — in addition to the …
In a Lonely Place
Directed by Nicholas Ray
In this second of two collaborations with Humphrey Bogart, Ray portrays the murderous side of the movie business, Bogart starring …
Johnny Guitar
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Widely cited as an allegory for the anti-Communist hearings overseen by the House Un-American Activities Committee that led to the …
King of Kings
Directed by Nicholas Ray
King of Kings, Ray’s second film for MGM, is truly his “epic” (featuring narration by Orson Welles!), a lavish historical …
Knock on Any Door
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Nearing the end of a highly productive era at Warner Brothers, Humphrey Bogart started his own company, Santana Productions, and …
Lightning Over Water
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Ray, dying of cancer, fought hard to make this last film, a document of his final days in New York …
On Dangerous Ground
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Injecting atmosphere and detailed character development to an already very strong script by A.I. Bezzerides, Robert Ryan stars as Jim …
Party Girl
Directed by Nicholas Ray
A latter-day mob tale made for glamorous MGM—ironic, at that most softboiled of studios—Ray follows the gritty gangster classics of …
Rebel Without a Cause
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Ray reinvigorated and expanded upon the generational-crisis motif of his earlier works in this Warner Brothers-made, mythical tale of a …
The Lusty Men
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Shot primarily in Pendleton, Oregon, The Lusty Men was produced during the Howard Hughes RKO era, a period of relative …
They Live by Night
Directed by Nicholas Ray
After working with Elia Kazan for many years as an assistant, Ray’s directorial debut is the first in a significant …
We Can’t Go Home Again
Directed by Nicholas Ray
In 1971, Ray, at the invitation of experimental filmmakers Larry Gottheim and Ken Jacobs, took a teaching post at SUNY …