Fugitive lovers on the run from nightmare America-drab, mercenary, and insanely competitive-create their own fantasy world full of charm and playful naivet?in Nicholas Ray's contribution to l'amour fou. Bowie (Farley Granger), an escaped convict, and Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell) are innocents who were "never properly introduced to the world we live in." Like Henry Fonda and Silvia Sydney in You Only Live Once, they are "the last romantic couple"-romance, in its true (not kitsch) sense, being the only defense aainst a cruel world. Already in this astonishing first film Ray's style is striking in its compactness and expressive mise-en-sc?ne, and personal in its peculiarly nervous existentialism. We present a new 35mm print.