Nicholas Ray: An American Journey by Bernard Eisenschitz

This is a biography of Nicholas Ray, who was one of America’s most distinctive film directors in the 1950s. Films such as “They Live By Night”, “In a Lonely Place”, “Johnny Guitar” and “Bigger Than Life” reveal the psychic ills of that decade, and Ray’s brooding pessimism and rebellious individualism reached their peak in his most famous film, “Rebel Without a Cause”.