| Naked City, The - The Criterion Collection | |||||
| Criterion (1948) | |||||
| Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | |||||
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| Dorothy Hart | Ruth Morrison | |
| Don Taylor | Det. Jimmy Halloran | |
| Barry Fitzgerald | Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon | |
| Howard Duff | Frank Niles | |
| Frank Conroy | Capt. Donahue | |
| Ted de Corsia | Willie Garzah aka Willie the Harmonica | |
| House Jameson | Dr. Stoneman | |
| Anne Sargent | Mrs. Halloran | |
| Adelaide Klein | Mrs. Paula Batory | |
| Grover Burgess | Mr. Batory | |
| Tom Pedi | Det. Perelli | |
| Enid Markey | Mrs. Edgar Hylton | |
| Mark Hellinger | Narrator | |
| Jean Adair | Little old lady | |
| Celia Adler | Dress shop proprietress |
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| Producer | Mark Hellinger
Jules Buck |
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| Writer | Albert Maltz
Malvin Wald |
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| Cinematography | William H. Daniels
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| Musician | Miklós Rózsa
Frank Skinner |
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"There are eight million stories in the Naked City," as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film-and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger's dazzling police procedural was shot entirely on location in New York City, as influenced by Italian neorealism as American crime fiction. A double Academy Award-winner, The Naked City remains a benchmark for naturalism in noir, living and breathing in the promises and perils of the Big Apple, from its lowest depths to its highest skyscrapers. |
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