"By any standard, Night and the City ranks with the best noirs ever made." -- TCM
Directed by Jules Dassin.
Often considered the quintessential film noir, Night and the City’s “man-on-the-run” narrative and dark mood resonate with the atmosphere of HUAC-era Hollywood. Director Jules Dassin uses London’s Blitz-scarred cityscape to accentuate the film’s fatalism. Without Dassin’s knowledge, Twentieth Century-Fox released different versions in the U.S. and the UK, the latter including retakes emphasizing Gene Tierney’s role and replacing Franz Waxman’s score with one by the British composer Benjamin Frankel.
Twentieth Century Productions, Ltd. Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Based on the novel by Gerald Kersh. Screenwriter: Jo Eisinger. Cinematographer: Max Greene. Editor: Sidney Stone. Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan.
35mm, b/w, 96 min.
