Happy 100th birthday, Nicholas Ray!

In his heyday, Nicholas Ray was one of Hollywood's finest directors, most-notably of dark, gritty film noir (although he also directed many mainstream films, such as Rebel Without a Cause and others.

But in his early directing days, he directed such films as They Live By Night, In a Lonely Place, The Racket, On Dangerous Ground and one of his films was also a radio drama before it was a film: Macao (heard on Escape! in the Summer of 1951.)

Ray died in 1979.

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