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Night and the City (1950)
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avril 1950 (UK) suitePlot:
Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day... suite | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Deserving of MUCH more acknowledgment, one of the best Noir films. suiteEnsemble
(Complete credited cast)| 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 of Athens (as Ken. Richmond) | |
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| Adelaide Hall | ... | Singer (scenes deleted) | |
| Eliot Makeham | ... | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) | |
| Betty Marsden | ... | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) | |
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View content advisory for parentsDurée:
101 min | USA:96 minPays:
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Noir et BlancAspect Ratio:
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Classification:
Norway:16 | USA:Approved (certificate #14096) | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) | France:U | Australia:PG | Finland:(Banned) (1950-1965) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:ACuriosités
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Finnish censorship visa # 32043 delivered on 19-9-1950 (banned). New decision on 9-4-1965 (K-16). suiteGoofs:
Anachronisms: Although the action takes place in London during the 1930s, 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. suiteSoundtrack:
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For some reason Night and the City doesn't seem to the credit it deserves; possibly because it was director Jules Dassin's last American film before being blacklisted as a Communist. I wasn't born until the Cold War was winding down, but it seems that with movies like Night and the City to his credit, we could have turned a blind eye even if he really was a Commie.
Honestly this film deserves to rank up there with the likes of The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, or Out of the Past. The scenes of our "hero" Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark, at his best) being chased through London's East End are as starkly beautiful as anything you'll ever see on film. For several minutes there isn't a single shade of gray, everything is literally black or white and the camera itself seems to have joined in hunting Harry. Then there's the long, semi-grotesque wrestling scene that took me totally by surprise, it's like something out of Fellini.
Widmark is utterly believable as Fabian, a charming two-bit grifter who works as a "club tout" but hatches one ill-fated get-rich-quick scheme after another. The rest of the cast is excellent as well, there isn't a cardboard character in the bunch, except maybe Harry's girl Marry (Gene Tierney) though its really more a flaw in the character than the actress. Mary's saintliness may be the writers' only slip-up though, every other character has the sort of depth that makes the film a joy to watch. They inexorably follow their own motivations, which, of course, rely on those of someone else, who inevitably has a goal of his or her own, which will eventually derail the plan of someone whom someone else is counting on (actually, the film is a little less twisted than this review ;-) Criterion has just (2/05) recently released Night and the City and never has the phrase "filmed in glorious black and white" been more appropriate. Before this film seemed to lurk in the shadows of AMC or TCM, only occasionally showing its face, as if it were one of the genre's minor works. Now, if you haven't seen it you have no excuse, and you're only hurting yourself.