Night and the City (1950)
1950 · Feature film · 100 min · dir. Jules Dassin
The inside story of London after dark.
- Drama
- film noir
- Crime
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Jules Dassin
- Writer
- Gerald Kersh
- Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Cinematography
- Mutz Greenbaum
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 1950-06-15
- Running time
- 100 minutes
Cast & crew
Jules Dassin Director
Mike Mazurki
Edward Chapman
Charles Farrell
Francis L. Sullivan
Googie Withers
Hugh Marlowe
Richard Widmark
Gene Tierney
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Good London Film Noir · Macht · 2025-07-25
Gripping story and very dreary. A lot of table turning.
★★★★ · Worth it for the cinematography · Peter_Pastmaster · 2023-12-05
This movie has been widely praised as a “masterpiece” of the film noir genre. How it has earned that reputation is hard to imagine, because it is actually no more than a cheap melodrama, and far inferior to the best noir films except in one respect. Set in London, it is the story of Harry Fabian, a “nightclub tout” played by Richard Widmark, and his doomed quest to get rich quick. He earns a precarious living conning tourists into visiting The Silver Fox nightclub, where his girlfriend, Mary, played by Gene Tierney, is a hostess. She having saved up her pennies, Fabian tries to inveigle her…
