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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.
25 December 1907, Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ternopil, Ukraine]
July 30, 1891 in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
3 March 1874, London, England, UK
August 31, 1907 in South Norwood, Surrey, England, UK
March 16, 1887 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
6 January 1903, London, England, UK
10 July 1906, London, England, UK
23 April 1907, Lonuvla, India
31 August 1920, London, England, UK
31 August 1926
December 23, 1932 in Stockwell, London, England, UK
16 October 1899, Bucklow, Cheshire, England, UK
July 29, 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 24, 1890 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
1 April 1879, Jodlowa, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Jodlowa, Podkarpackie, Poland]
10 July 1926, London, England, UK
13 October 1901, Harrogate, Yorkshire [now North Yorkshire], England, UK
5 August 1920, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
19 November 1920, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1913, Fulham, London, England, UK
April 15, 2008
A dark, brooding noir, with Widmark riveting as a hustling promoter who sinks into the quagmire of his own ambitions.
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 01, 2000
Before he met Melina Mercouri and became an Artist, Jules Dassin made a number of worthwhile thrillers as a Hollywood contract director.
August 15, 2015
[A] gripping little crime drama.
February 15, 2005
The archetypal film noir.
January 28, 2006
A pointless, trashy yarn.
April 03, 2005
One of the true-blue noir classics. RIchard Widmark is a certifiable force of nature.
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.
January 26, 2006
Inclined to go over the top, it all too clearly contains the seeds of Dassin's later -- and disastrous -- pretensions.
April 15, 2008
Jules Dassin, in his direction, manages extraordinarily interesting backgrounds, realistically filmed to create a feeling both of suspense and mounting menace.
March 25, 2003
A moody piece of Wellesian chiaroscuro (shot by Max Greene, né Mutz Greenbaum) and an occasionally discomfiting underworld plunge.