Nicholas Ray | NW Film Center

Written and produced by the esteemed Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), Ray’s second feature for RKO concerns aging, cosmopolitan singer Marian …

Moving to 20th Century Fox for this indictment of traditional masculinity in the American home — in addition to the …

In this second of two collaborations with Humphrey Bogart, Ray portrays the murderous side of the movie business, Bogart starring …

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, Ray’s second film for MGM, is truly his “epic” (featuring narration by Orson Welles!), a lavish historical …

Nearing the end of a highly productive era at Warner Brothers, Humphrey Bogart started his own company, Santana Productions, and …

Ray, dying of cancer, fought hard to make this last film, a document of his final days in New York …

Injecting atmosphere and detailed character development to an already very strong script by A.I. Bezzerides, Robert Ryan stars as Jim …

A latter-day mob tale made for glamorous MGM—ironic, at that most softboiled of studios—Ray follows the gritty gangster classics of …

Ray reinvigorated and expanded upon the generational-crisis motif of his earlier works in this Warner Brothers-made, mythical tale of a …

Shot primarily in Pendleton, Oregon, The Lusty Men was produced during the Howard Hughes RKO era, a period of relative …

After working with Elia Kazan for many years as an assistant, Ray’s directorial debut is the first in a significant …

In 1971, Ray, at the invitation of experimental filmmakers Larry Gottheim and Ken Jacobs, took a teaching post at SUNY …

Director: Nicholas Ray