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Nobody Lives Forever (film)
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
| Produced by | Robert Buckner |
| Written by | W.R. Burnett |
| Starring | John Garfield Geraldine Fitzgerald Walter Brennan Faye Emerson |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Editing by | Rudi Fehr |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | November 1, 1946 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Language | English |
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Nobody Lives Forever is a 1946 black-and-white crime film based on the novel I Wasn't Born Yesterday by W.R. Burnett. It starred John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Former conman Nick Blake (John Garfield), a soldier returning to the United States after World War II, looks up his old girlfriend Toni Blackburn (Faye Emerson) to get the money she has been holding for him while he was in the army. He finds that not only is she dating another man, but the money he gave her is gone. Blake extorts the money from his girlfriend's new beau and leaves town.
Blake meets up with old conman Pop Gruber (Walter Brennan), who tries to convince him that he's getting too old for the con game and that if he keeps it up, he will end up as "an old man selling pencils on the side of the road." Blake ignores him and ends up getting recruited by Pop to work for untrustworthy con artist Doc Ganson (George Coulouris).
The plan is to have Blake, a lady's man, romance rich widow Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and steal her fortune. The plan hits a snag when it turns out that Gladys is young and beautiful. Blake falls in love with her and attempts to back out of the "big con". Doc will have none of that and ends up kidnapping the widow in an attempt to get all her money.
- John Garfield as Nick Blake. The role was first offered to Humphrey Bogart.
- Geraldine Fitzgerald as Gladys Halvorsen
- Walter Brennan as Pop Gruber
- Faye Emerson as Toni Blackburn
- George Coulouris as Doc Ganson
- George Tobias as Al Doyle
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