Night and the City (Blu-ray)
The inside story of London after dark.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 4, 2015
- Originally Released: 1950
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Widmark & Gene Tierney | |
Performer: | Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan, Hugh Marlowe, Googie Withers, Mike Mazurki & Charles Farrell | |
Directed by | Jules Dassin | |
Edited by | Sidney Stone & Nick DeMaggio | |
Screenwriting by | Jo Eisinger | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman | |
Art Direction by | C.P. Norman | |
Story by | Gerald Kersh | |
Produced by | Samuel G. Engel | |
Director of Photography: | Mutz Greenbaum |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
One of the true-blue noir classics. RIchard Widmark is a certifiable force of nature.
eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 4/4 --
A dark, brooding noir, with Widmark riveting as a hustling promoter who sinks into the quagmire of his own ambitions.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
A pointless, trashy yarn.
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New York Times
Rating: 4.5/5 --
One of the best noirs around ... downward-spiral noir in its purest form, even if it trades the traditional urban landscape of the American city for the mean streets of London.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Inclined to go over the top, it all too clearly contains the seeds of Dassin's later -- and disastrous -- pretensions.
Time Out
[T]his is the real thing...
USA Today
Rating: 5/5 --
the rare masterpiece that earns the appellation not by announcing its grand intentions but by following them through with sublime confidence and precision
Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
In NIGHT AND THE CITY, director Jules Dassin brilliantly fuses two styles of filmmaking, crossing the expressionist lighting and framing of film noir with the almost documentary location shooting he used for THE NAKED CITY (1948). Dassin treats NIGHT AND THE CITY's central London locations as strange exotic places. As the movie opens, it is nighttime and small-time hood Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is running from almost unseen pursuers. Harry crosses in front of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Dassin shows this familiar tourist sight from a very high angle, then immediately juxtaposes a shot of Harry escaping through bombed-out ruins. While Dassin and director of photography Max Greene shoot exteriors from high angles or from cramped doorways, they shoot interiors from low angles catching their actors against heavily contrasted backgrounds. The result is a movie full of diamond-sharp, angst-ridden visuals.
NIGHT AND THE CITY is built round the dynamic febrile performance of Richard Widmark as the constantly scheming, ever-overreaching Harry. Herbert Lom is brilliant as the Greek who ruthlessly controls wrestling in London. Francis L. Sullivan, huge and slow moving, exudes menace as nightclub owner Phil Nosseross. And Googie Withers is very striking as Nosseross's smart but desperate wife.
NIGHT AND THE CITY is built round the dynamic febrile performance of Richard Widmark as the constantly scheming, ever-overreaching Harry. Herbert Lom is brilliant as the Greek who ruthlessly controls wrestling in London. Francis L. Sullivan, huge and slow moving, exudes menace as nightclub owner Phil Nosseross. And Googie Withers is very striking as Nosseross's smart but desperate wife.
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- Sales Rank: 25,977
- UPC: 715515153515
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