You Only Live Once | |
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Directed by | Fritz Lang |
Screenplay by | |
Produced by | Walter Wanger |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Leon Shamroy[1] |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell[1] |
Music by | Alfred Newman[1] |
Production companies | Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.[1] |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 85–86 minutes |
Country | United States[1] |
Language | English |
Budget | $628,138[2] |
Box office | $589,503[2] |
You Only Live Once is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda. Considered an early film noir,[3] the film was the second directed by Lang in the United States.[4] At least 15 minutes were trimmed from the original 100-minute version of the film due to its then unprecedented violence.[5] Despite the removal of such scenes, the film is widely considered an early film noir classic.[6] The film is also known for being one of the first box-office bombs.[citation needed]