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Night and the City

The inside story of London after dark.

7.5 / 10

95 minutes

1950-06-15

English

GB

Actors :

Richard Widmark, Francis L. Sullivan, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Herbert Lom, Hugh Marlowe, Mike Mazurki, Charles Farrell, Ada Reeve, Ken Richmond, Alan Tilvern, Derek Blomfield, Clifford Buckton, Ernest Butcher

Description

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.

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

5/16/2024, 3:22:20 PM

An artist without an art. Night and the City is directed by Jules Dassin and is adapted by Jo Eisinger from the novel written by Gerald Kersh. Starring are Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hebert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan, Mike Mazurki & Stanislaus Zbyszko. The score is composed by Franz Waxman and Max Greene is the cinematographer. It's shot on location in London, England. Ha...

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

12/27/2022, 1:29:35 PM

Jules Dassin has assembled a top-drawer cast for this thriller. An on-form Richard Widmark ("Fabian") is a bit of a low-life grifter in London who encounters the huge, but ageing, champion wrestler "Gregorius" (Stanislaus Zbyszko) and concocts a plan that could make them both extremely wealthy men. Of course, the best laid plans never quite work out, and soon his internecine web of lies, deceit an...