The naked city / a Mark Hellinger production ; a Universal-International release ; screenplay was written by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, from a story by Mr. Wald ; produced and narrated by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Jules Dassin.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia, House Jameson, Anne Sargent, Adelaide Klein, Grover Burgess, Tom Pedi, Enid Markey, Molly Picon, Kathleen Freeman, James Gregory, Arthur O'Connell, David Opatoshu, . Originally released as a motion picture in 1948; copyright held by Universal Pictures Company Inc. Full screen (1.37:1). Restored version. Special features: Audio commentary from 1996 with screenwriter Malvin Wald; interview with film scholar Dana Polan from 2006; Architect James Sanders talks about the depiction of New York's skyline in the film; Dassin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2004, discussing his work with Bruce Goldstein; stills gallery; booklet contains an essay by Luc Sante and notes from Mark Hellinger.
Summary:
"There are eight million stories in the Naked City," as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film, and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger's dazzling police procedural was shot entirely on location in New York. Influenced as much by Italian neorealism as it is by American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism in noir"-Container.
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