Night and the City (1950)

Note des utilisateurs:

8.1/10   

Réalisateur:

Jules Dassin

Writers:

Jo Eisinger (screenplay)
Gerald Kersh (novel)

Release Date:

avril 1950 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller

Plot:

Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day...

Plot Keywords:

Alley | Beggar | Betrayal | Bounty | Chase Scene

Avis des utilisateurs:

like a rat in a trap of his own creation

Ensemble

Richard Widmark	...	Harry Fabian
Gene Tierney	...	Mary Bristol
Googie Withers	...	Helen Nosseross
Hugh Marlowe	...	Adam Dunn
Francis L. Sullivan	...	Philip Nosseross
Herbert Lom	...	Kristo
Stanislaus Zbyszko	...	Gregorius
Mike Mazurki	...	The Strangler
Charles Farrell	...	Mickey Beer
Ada Reeve	...	Molly the Flower Lady
Ken Richmond	...	Nikolas (as Ken. Richmond)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Adelaide Hall	...	Singer (scenes deleted)
Eliot Makeham	...	Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
Betty Marsden	...	Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Forbans de la nuit, Les (France) [fr]

Durée:

101 min | USA:96 min

Pays:

UK

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Son:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Classification:

Norway:16 | USA:Approved (certificate #14096) | Australia:PG | Finland:(Banned) (1950-1965) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Hammersmith Bridge, Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Productions

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Although the action takes place in London during the 30's, there is a scene in which we can see an enormous illuminated advertisement in the front of a building: "Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino and Eleanor Parker in ESCAPE ME NEVER". This film was produced in 1947.

Guillemet:

Googin the Forger: If you ain't got socks you can't pull 'em up, can you?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in That Thing You Do! (1996)

Soundtrack:

HERE'S TO CHAMPAGNE

like a rat in a trap of his own creation

Every where Richard Widmark's loser character Harry Fabian turns in this film he finds golden opportunities smothered in bad timing. Widmark utilizes a variation of that smarmy, snickering sinister giggle-chuckle that was memorialized in Kiss of Death.It serves the actor well in this film in its toned-down form but offers up a sort of pathetic body language for Fabian, the character. It may be that this American ex-patriot character is just way out of his depth. His hucksterism is not much appreciated by many of his acquaintances in this seedy London underworld. If Harry Fabian would simply accept that he is destined to be a 3rd rate shill and stooge,he might have fund some small pleasures. However, his mind is a shade too quick and his ambition too pumped. He's a user with not a shread of remorse about stepping on others, ripping them off, keeping one tiny step ahead of exposure. This is a superb film, squalid and sinister in its portrayal of greed, corruption and betrayal.