Night and the City Director: Jules Dassin Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
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- DVD Release Date: 02/01/2005
- Original Release: 1950
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- Sales Rank: 5,098
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Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer; Audio commentary by film scholar Glenn Erickson; New video interview with director Jules Dassin; Excerpts from a 1972 French interview with Dassin; A comparison of the two scores recorded for the British and American releases of the film; Original theatrical trailer; English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired; New essay by film scholar Paul Arthur
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Side #1 --
1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:24]
2. Saint Mary [6:14]
3. Adam Dunn [2:46]
4. The Silver Fox [2:30]
5. The American Bar [2:56]
6. Gregorius [3:59]
7. "Here's to Champagne" [3:39]
8. Figler [2:22]
9. Helen's 200 Quid [5:39]
10. Mr. Chilk. Fergus Chilk [5:25]
11. Fabian Promotions [2:12]
12. Hermes Kristo [:04]
13. "Business, Business, Business" [3:33]
14. The Strangler [5:19]
15. "I Let My Boy Crush You" [2:48]
16. Nosseross' Phone Call [2:23]
17. The Wrestling Match [6:47]
18. "Papa" [5:26]
19. The Word Goes Out [5:00]
20. "You'll Be All Right" [2:44]
21. The Shot Tower [1:44]
22. "Everything Seems to Be in Order" [5:54]
23. Betrayals [1:23]
24. "Oh, Anna, the Things I Did" [3:54]
25. Color Bars [9:26]
Editorial Reviews
Jules Dassin's Night and the City opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets of London. Harry wants to be big-time, and he does not care how he raises cash for his schemes. Like a junkie, he uses and steals from his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney), a singer at the Silver Fox, a seedy nightclub owned by the physically grotesque Phil Nosseross Francis L. Sullivan. Harry, who also works for Phil steering unsuspecting customers to the club, comes up with a plan to wrest control of professional wrestling from promoter and underworld kingpin Kristo (Herbert Lom) by manipulating Kristo through his father, retired wrestling great Gregorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko). For financial backing, Harry turns to Phil and Phil's wife Helen Googie Withers, both of whom give him the money, but only to further their own ends. When Gregorius is accidentally killed by his protege's upcoming opponent, Strangler (Mike Mazurki), and Phil realizes that Helen is leaving him for Harry, the scheme quickly unravels. Truly a glimpse of hell, Night and the City's distorted visuals and dark symbolism depict an underworld from which there is no escape and in which redemption comes at a very high price. Steve Press, All Movie Guide
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