Night and the City

USA / UK 1950,
Dir. Jules Dassin
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Classics / Film Noir

Topics: Sport.

Feat. Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom

Aroview: An overlooked film noir gem that fires on all cylinders, marked above all by a sensationally giddy performance by Richard Widmark as a two-bit hustler looking for his break in the world of professional wrestling.

A marvellously sweaty depiction of London racketeering, gifted dir. Jules Dassin umpires the character, action, intricate plotting, a classic wrestling sequence, and Bernard Herrmann's hysterical score, with a vitality and focus that after all these years maintains its powerful hold.

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DVD Features

This "Criterion Collection Edition" includes an audio commentary by film scholar Glenn Erickson, a new video interview with dir. Jules Dassin, excerpts from a 1972 French interview with Dassin, a comparison by Christopher Husted of the Bernard Hermann estate of the two scores recorded for the British and American releases of the film, plus a new essay by film critic Paul Arthur.