Night and the City
An amoral grifter drifts through a city of dreadful night.
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Richard Widmark's Harry Fabian is an amoral grifter, wandering through a city of derelict buildings and long shadows, where even the familiar landmarks have the quality of expressionist nightmare...
Introduction by Lyndsey Moore.
In Night and the City, HUAC exile Jules Dassin presents London as an urban nightmare, its unique visual quality enhanced by the technically difficult night-for-night shooting. Richard Widmark's Harry Fabian is an amoral grifter, drifting through a city of dreadful night, of derelict buildings and long shadows, where even the familiar landmarks have the quality of expressionist nightmare.
- Directed by:
- Jules Dassin
- Cast:
- Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney
- Country:
- UK
- Year:
- 1950
- Running time:
- 101min
- Certificate:
- PG
