Nobody Lives Forever

Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) off her feet and out of her sizable inheritance. But it's Nick who starts falling, and now that he wants out of the scam, will that fall turn into a dive? Or will Gladys pay the price for Nick's change of heart? Garfield is his usual astonishing self, it's Fitzgerald who proves a revelation, as she stabs at the heart of noir's darkness by perfectly impersonating pure innocence. Faye Emerson plays the fatale, as Nick's sultry ex.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Producer: Robert Buckner
Actor: John Garfield
Actor: Geraldine Fitzgerald
Actor: Walter Brennan
Actor: Faye Emerson
Actor: George Coulouris
Actor: Dick Erdman
Actor: Ralph Peters
Actor: Alex Havier
Actor: William Edmunds
Actor: Ralph Dunn
Actor: Grady Sutton
Actor: George Tobias
Actor: Robert Shayne
Actor: Richard Gaines
Actor: James Flavin
Actor: Allen Ray
Actor: Roger Neury
Actor: Jack Chefe
Actor: Harry Seymour
Actor: Rudy Friml Jr.
Actor: Fred Kelsey
Actor: Wallace Scott
Actor: Albert van Antwerp
Actor: Charles Sullivan
Actor: Paul Power
Actor: George Meader
Actor: Virginia Patton
Actor: Robert Arthur
Actor: Marion Martin
Actor: Cyril Ring
Actor: William Forrest
Actor: Adrian Droeshout
Actor: Joel Friedkin
Actor: Lee Phelps