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- 2003
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 41 m
- 2003
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 41 m
Summary This 1950 film is an expressionist tour de force -- a grinding tale of fate in which a moment of decency proves the final act. (Film Forum)
Directed By: Jules Dassin
Written By: Jo Eisinger, Gerald Kersh, Austin Dempster, William E. Watts
- 2003
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 41 m
- 2003
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 41 m
Night and the City (re-release)
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Available after 4 critic reviews
7.5
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Summary This 1950 film is an expressionist tour de force -- a grinding tale of fate in which a moment of decency proves the final act. (Film Forum)
Directed By: Jules Dassin
Written By: Jo Eisinger, Gerald Kersh, Austin Dempster, William E. Watts
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A dark, brooding noir, with Widmark riveting as a hustling promoter who sinks into the quagmire of his own ambitions.
Jules Dassin, in his direction, manages extraordinarily interesting backgrounds, realistically filmed to create a feeling both of suspense and mounting menace.
However defined, the movie's a moody piece of Wellesian chiaroscuro (shot by Max Greene, né Mutz Greenbaum) and an occasionally discomfiting underworld plunge, particularly when the mob-controlled wrestling milieu explodes into a kidney-punching donnybrook.
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