Night and the City Movie Review 1992

Harry Fabian (De Niro), a con-artist/ambulance-chaser, concocts a scheme to make it big, and approaches an old boxing great (Warden) to come out of retirement and revive a local boxing night. Problem is, although Harry has energy and ambition, he also has a talent for making enemies out of the wrong people, like the boxer's brother (King), a neighborhood mobster. Filled with details more interesting than the plot; more about fast-living, fast-talking New Yorkers, a fine showcase for De Niro's talent. Winkler's remake of the 1950 Jules Dassin film.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 98 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Law & Lawyers, Scams, Stings & Cons, New York, New York, Boxing

Screenplay

Richard Price

Cast

Joseph (Joe) D'Onofrio, Michael Badalucco, Michael Rispoli, Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King, Jack Warden, Eli Wallach, Barry Primus, Gene Kirkwood, Pedro Sanchez

Cinematography

Tak Fujimoto

Director

Irwin Winkler

Music

James Newton Howard

Other

Regis Philbin, Joy Philbin, Richard Price

Producer

Irwin Winkler, 20th Century-Fox