Nobody Lives Forever (1946 film)

Nobody Lives Forever is a 1946 blackandwhite crime film noir directed by Jean Negulesco and based on the novel I Wasnt Born Yesterday by W.R. Burnett. It starred John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald.

Nick looks up old conman Pop Gruber Walter Brennan, who feels hes getting too old for the con game and that if he keeps it up, he will end up selling pencils on the side of the road. Nick and his crony Al George Tobias travel to Los Angeles, where another con artist, Doc Ganson George Coulouris, has spotted a sucker, but has neither the money nor the charm necessary for the job. Doc reluctantly approaches Pop to recruit Nick, even though there is bad blood between them.The plan is to have Nick, a ladies man, romance rich recent widow Gladys Halvorsen Fitzgerald and persuade her to invest in a phony tugboat business. Nick agrees on the condition that he get twothirds of the proceeds, increasing Docs bitter resentment of the younger, more successful man. ........

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