Night and the City Movie Review 1950

A film noir classic about a hustler's money-making schemes. Widmark is Harry Fabian, a small-time promoter working for slimy nightclub owner Sullivan, whose job is to hustle the marks into the club where his girlfriend Tierney is the singer. Widmark also happens to be romancing Sullivan's wife, Withers, and wants her to back his latest con. But his schemes go awry and Fabian's on the run for his life. Widmark gives a riveting performance of a lowlife whose brains don't match his ambitions. Filmed in London with appropriate brooding tawdriness. Adapted from the novel by Gerald Kersh; remade in 1992.

Distribution

Rex Miller, Rte. 1, Box 457-D, East Prairie, MO 63845, Phone: (573)649-5048

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Film Noir, Scams, Stings & Cons, London

Screenplay

Jo Eisinger

Cast

Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Francis L. Sullivan, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom, Mike Mazurki, Charles Farrell

Director

Jules Dassin

Music

Franz Waxman

Producer

Samuel G. Engel, 20th Century-Fox