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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.
10 July 1926, London, England, UK
25 December 1907, Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ternopil, Ukraine]
12 March 1917, Karachi, Sindh, British India
30 January 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 April 1879, Jodlowa, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Jodlowa, Podkarpackie, Poland]
26 December 1914, Sunrise Township, Minnesota, USA
February 15, 2005
The archetypal film noir.
April 15, 2008
A dark, brooding noir, with Widmark riveting as a hustling promoter who sinks into the quagmire of his own ambitions.
January 26, 2006
Inclined to go over the top, it all too clearly contains the seeds of Dassin's later -- and disastrous -- pretensions.
March 25, 2003
A moody piece of Wellesian chiaroscuro (shot by Max Greene, né Mutz Greenbaum) and an occasionally discomfiting underworld plunge.
August 15, 2015
[A] gripping little crime drama.
April 15, 2008
Jules Dassin, in his direction, manages extraordinarily interesting backgrounds, realistically filmed to create a feeling both of suspense and mounting menace.
April 03, 2005
One of the true-blue noir classics. RIchard Widmark is a certifiable force of nature.
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.
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
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.