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Seen on: 01/27/2011

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Night and the City (1950)

Directed by Jules Dassin

Crime

Most recently watched by noahphex, sensoria

Overview

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry’s schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

Rated NR | Length 95 minutes

Actors

Charles Paton | Hugh Marlowe | Richard Widmark | Alan Tilvern | Googie Withers | Herbert Lom | Gene Tierney | John Sharp | James Hayter | Edward Chapman | Derek Blomfield | Peter Butterworth | Charles Farrell | Rex Garner | Mike Mazurki | Francis L. Sullivan | Maureen Delaney | Gibb McLaughlin | MacDonald Parke | Naomi Chance | Thomas Gallagher | Kay Kendall | Leonard Sharp | Philip Ray | Brian Weske | Harry Terry | Aubrey Dexter | C. Denier Warren | Ernest Butcher | Johnnie Schofield | Stanislaus Zbyszko | Tony Sympson | Betty Shale | Ada Reeve | Patricia Davidson | Arthur Lovegrove | John Rudling | Russell Westwood | Freddie Watts | Hamilton Keene | Clifford Buckton | Frank Pettitt | Harold Sanderson | Ken Richmond | Hubert Leslie | Clifford Cobbe | Stanley Escane | George Hirste | Jack Mandeville | Lew Marco | Chunky Pattison | Eddy Reed | Ray St. Bernard | John Mann

Viewing Notes

Another classic noir film, I chose this as it once again featured Gene Tierney, who I had just watched in Laura and Where The Sidewalk Ends.

Tierney’s role here is strictly supporting the amazing Richard Widmark who just tears through scenery left and right as the perennial sad sack hustler, Harry Fabian.

Always scheming, betraying the ones he loves, including Tierney, Harry wouldn’t know a moral if he tripped over it.

Almost completely filmed at night in post-war London, Night and the City shows the underbelly of this epic city through stark shadows and hard edges; just like the characters it portrays.

If you love noir, this one’s a classic, and it’s streaming on Nexflix.

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