In the midst of her deadly illness, she comfortsherbest friend Ann King (Fitzgerald), and courageously meets her fate when her eyesight dims.Carrol NaishNicholas Ray""sThey Live by Night (1949)with Farley Granger and Cathy O""DonnellSam Peckinpah""sThe Getaway (1972)starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGrawRobert Altman""sThieves Like Us (1974)- a remake of Ray""s film with Keith Carradine and Shelley DuvallTerrence Malick""sBadlands (1973)with Martin Sheen and Sissy SpacekJim McBride""sBreathless (1983)with Richard Gere and Valerie KapriskyTamra Davis""Guncrazy (1992)starring Drew Barrymore and James LeGrosOliver Stone""sNatural Born Killers (1994)with Juliette Lewis and Woody HarrelsonPlot SynopsisThe film""s opening is pivotal and expressionistic, quickly determining the young hero""s ultimate defeat and failure.Using all weapons at her disposal to curry favor with Big Daddy, Mae has her brood of five children play ""Dixie"" on a combination of instruments to greet him....We got a lot of cotton stored up.Call it stolen cotton if you want to, but we""ve got it.But it won""t do us good unless we get a man on the selling end of the business....Now, we want you go to Memphis like a regular cotton grower.Set up an office and...There""s a good, fat commission in it for you, too.Joe argued it was now the time for the educated Marvin (who was given "learning" by Norwood) to pay back his kinfolk by using his intelligence to side with the tenant-farmers against his exploitative employer Norwood:Now, you""re under obligations to him.