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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very Cool!!!

Load of rubbish!!

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This is quite a well known film with Henry Fonda playing three time loser Eddie Taylor. Much of the plot is improbable, indeed the prison bust-out is Fantasy Island stuff because even in the 1930s security for a man under sentence of death in the United States was an order of magnitude stronger than depicted here, but this is a film that was clearly produced as a social document as much as for entertainment. Eddie Taylor is a most unappealing character, one whom even an actor of Fonda's stature cannot inject with empathy, added to which if he'd had so much as a shred of decency he would never have dragged down his girl with him, would probably not have married her in the first place. Nevertheless, the question remains, how does society deal with even the repentant habitual criminal? Seventy and more years on, little if anything has been done to address that problem, certainly in America with its enormous prison population and the continued destruction of unskilled jobs which reduce almost to nothing the prospects of the underclass – criminal or otherwise – of making an honest living.

I'll start off by saying that this film didn't really do a whole lot for me. It wasn't badly made it just was one of those ones that so graced the 30's that was about how bad the system was and no one could get a fair shake...i.e...the little guy can't win...problem is, this guy in this one over reacts to everything and just about gets what he deserves in the end.Sure in a perfect world the judicial system wouldn't be wrong ever. We don't live in that world. We're suppose to feel sorry for this guy who's a 3 time loser who goes through a few breaks after he gets out of prison but consistently makes bad decisions that get him back in prison. Of course he goes back to prison to get a death sentence for a crime he didn't do.To get him the point he gets to at the end of this film he first gets a job and in the first few days he gets out he decides to stop and look for a house for him and his girlfriend. He doesn't even consider that he's 90 minutes late checking in for his truck route. The boss fires him and he can't get a job. He starts to hang around his old cohort but doesn't go back to his life a crime. His cohort robs an armored car and kills 6 people. This friend of his decides to steal his hat before the crime and it's left at the scene to implicate him.From here on out we get "The Wrong Man" and "Bonnie and Clyde". If you were anything like me you won't feel a bit sorry for Eddie and his girlfriend in the end. It seems like they just walked into all of this by bad decisions.Decent film but it wasn't very moving. Try "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang " or "Each Dawn I Die" for a better look into the wrong man imprisoned. This one's just a time piece with Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sydney and Fritz Lang tied to it. Whether you think it's "Crime doesn't Pay" type of film or even a "Wronged Man" film...it won't matter...just an average watch for me.

Fritz Lang is a director with an immensely big reputation, which has everything to do with his movies "Metropolis" and "M" but in all truth and honesty, most of his other movies were were merely average ones. This one included. It's a good movie but nothing about this movie makes it a special one or a must-see really.It has a decent enough story but definitely not a solid or credible one. The movie is being a bit melodramatic and forced with all of its events and emotions but then again, this really wasn't that uncommon for an 1930's movie. I liked some of the places the movie was taken its story but then the movie would do something stupid and silly again, which took me out of the movie and prevented me from connecting to its characters and everything that is going on with them.The movie ultimately tries to present itself as a love story, with only one big crime and dramatic twist to it. The combination of all these elements does work out well enough and also original. It still makes "You Only Live Once" definitely a good watch and for its time it also really isn't a bad attempt. The story works sort of renewing and original and also the twists and turns in it make this far from the typical genre attempt, from about that same time period this movie got made in.It takes some good approach with its directing and cinematography, which at times make you forget you are watching an '30's movie here. The movie can feel quite modern and raw at times, also because it's not a movie that is constantly busy with trying to wrap things up needly and create an happy ending for all of its main characters.The movie features a young Henry Fonda, with still lots of hair. It's one of his earliest movie roles and funny thing about him is that he never really played secondary characters but always had been the main lead, ever since the start of his acting career. And why not. He definitely had the right required skills and also looks for it and he also was quite good in this movie. Even though the story gets melodramatic at times, the actors still aren't overacting and keep things as real as possible. It's the reason why "You Only Live Once" still works out good and effectively, for most part.A good movie to watch but at the same time also one you could easily do without ever seeing.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney) is the efficient secretary of a public defender Stephen Whitney (Barton MacLane) and is in love of the smalltime criminal Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda). Her boss and friend Stephen helps Eddie to leave the prison on probation, Eddie promises to have a straight life and immediately get married with Joan. He finds a job as truck driver, but is unfairly fired on his first day. While trying to find another job, there is a heist in a bank with six victims and Eddie is accused. Joan convinces him to go to the court and prove his innocence, but based on circumstantial evidence and prejudice of the jury, Eddie is sentenced to the electric chair. On the night of his execution, the FBI finds the real criminal and Eddie grants an indulgence. However, Eddie is trying to escape from prison in a hostage situation, and kills his friend Father Dolan (William Gargan), who was trying to help him. Eddie meets Joan and together they try to reach the border and escape from justice."You Only Live Once" is the second American movie of Fritz Lang and a tragic melodrama. The depressive story of love and prejudice discloses a tough criticism to a very unfair, corrupt and hostile society, where losers do not have the chance to recover their dignity and common people are corrupt. The screenplay is visibly influenced by Bonnie and Clyde, who died on 23 May 1934, ambushed in their getaway car - therefore less than three years before the release date of this film. Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney show a great chemistry in good performances in this minor movie of this great director. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Vive-se Uma Só Vez" ("You Only Live Once")