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Night and the City

1950

Jules Dassin

Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe ...

7.6

3,679

Film noir. Drama. Thriller Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be his ticket to financial independence. As Fabian attempts to con everyone around him to get his scheme to work, he of course only ends up conning himself. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Fascinating, even though the stylised characterisations (...) remain theoretically interesting rather than convincing"	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"'Night and the City' is no less than the archetypal film noir (...) Masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"[Dassin's] evident talent has been spent upon a pointless, trashy yarn, and the best that he has accomplished is a turgid pictorial grotesque. (...) [Widmark] does not convey any subtle explanation of the character—or, indeed, any credibility".	NEG
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"Dassin’s approach to this material is more dramatically pungent than is customary for the genre, and less rooted in German Expressionism"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"It works, largely because of star Richard Widmark's brilliant, desperate portrayal of a hustler on the edge, and skilled director Jules Dassin's cleverly atmospheric use of London locations (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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