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Night and the City
Londoner Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) wants to be big-time, and he does not care how he raises cash for his schemes. But soon Harry learns the horrible price of his ambition.
1 April 1879, Jodlowa, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Jodlowa, Podkarpackie, Poland]
13 October 1901, Harrogate, Yorkshire [now North Yorkshire], England, UK
6 August 1900, Dublin, Ireland
10 July 1906, London, England, UK
23 April 1907, Lonuvla, India
12 March 1917, Karachi, Sindh, British India
5 November 1918, London, England, UK
10 July 1926, London, England, UK
6 January 1903, London, England, UK
December 23, 1932 in Stockwell, London, England, UK
31 August 1926
19 November 1920, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
August 15, 2015
[A] gripping little crime drama.
April 03, 2005
One of the true-blue noir classics. RIchard Widmark is a certifiable force of nature.
January 26, 2006
Inclined to go over the top, it all too clearly contains the seeds of Dassin's later -- and disastrous -- pretensions.
February 15, 2005
The archetypal film noir.
January 01, 2000
Before he met Melina Mercouri and became an Artist, Jules Dassin made a number of worthwhile thrillers as a Hollywood contract director.
January 28, 2006
A pointless, trashy yarn.
October 07, 2015
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.
March 25, 2003
A moody piece of Wellesian chiaroscuro (shot by Max Greene, né Mutz Greenbaum) and an occasionally discomfiting underworld plunge.
April 15, 2008
A dark, brooding noir, with Widmark riveting as a hustling promoter who sinks into the quagmire of his own ambitions.
April 15, 2008
Jules Dassin, in his direction, manages extraordinarily interesting backgrounds, realistically filmed to create a feeling both of suspense and mounting menace.
February 20, 2005
the rare masterpiece that earns the appellation not by announcing its grand intentions but by following them through with sublime confidence and precision
