The naked city, Universal Pictures Company ; a Mark Hellinger production ; a Universal-International release ; screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, from a story by Mr. Wald ; produced and narrated by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Jules Dassin
Type
Label
The naked city, Universal Pictures Company ; a Mark Hellinger production ; a Universal-International release ; screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, from a story by Mr. Wald ; produced and narrated by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Jules Dassin
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
The naked city
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
78785909
Responsibility statement
Universal Pictures Company ; a Mark Hellinger production ; a Universal-International release ; screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, from a story by Mr. Wald ; produced and narrated by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Jules Dassin
Runtime
96
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 380
Summary
Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie
Table Of Contents
Special features: Optional audio feature commentary with screenwriter Malvin Wald -- Interview with NYU film studies professor Dana Polan (ca. 28 min.) -- Interview with architect James Sanders, who discusses The Naked City's depiction of New York City in the 1940s (ca. 26 min.) -- Jules Dassin at LACMA (ca. 41 min. ; appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, after a screening of his film Rififi) -- Stills gallery
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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Jules Dassin's The Naked CityJules Dassin's Naked City
Contributor
- Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961
- Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947
- Jameson, House
- Taylor, Don, 1920-1998
- Hart, Dorothy, 1922-2004
- Sante, Luc
- De Corsia, Ted
- Polan, Dana B., 1953-
- Daniels, William, 1900-1970
- Wald, Malvin
- Burgess, Grover, 1892?-1948
- Weatherwax, Paul
- Image Entertainment (Firm)
- Markey, Enid, 1890-1981
- Universal Pictures Company
- Sanders, James, 1955-
- Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985
- Universal-International (Firm)
- Duff, Howard
- Conroy, Frank, 1890-1964
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008
- Klein, Adelaide, 1901-1983
- Pedi, Tom, 1913-1996
- Sargent, Anne
Genre
Subject
- New York (N.Y.) -- Drama
- Mystery films
- Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Film noir -- Feature
- Murder victims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Crime -- Feature
- Feature films
- National Film Registry
- Mystery -- Feature
- Criminal investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Detective and mystery films
- Fiction films
- Burglars -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Film noir
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor25
- Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961
- Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947
- Jameson, House
- Taylor, Don, 1920-1998
- Hart, Dorothy, 1922-2004
- Sante, Luc
- De Corsia, Ted
- Polan, Dana B., 1953-
- Daniels, William, 1900-1970
- Wald, Malvin
- Burgess, Grover, 1892?-1948
- Weatherwax, Paul
- Image Entertainment (Firm)
- Markey, Enid, 1890-1981
- Universal Pictures Company
- Sanders, James, 1955-
- Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985
- Universal-International (Firm)
- Duff, Howard
- Conroy, Frank, 1890-1964
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008
- Klein, Adelaide, 1901-1983
- Pedi, Tom, 1913-1996
- Sargent, Anne
- Genre8
- Subject14
- New York (N.Y.) -- Drama
- Mystery films
- Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Film noir -- Feature
- Murder victims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Crime -- Feature
- Feature films
- National Film Registry
- Mystery -- Feature
- Criminal investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Detective and mystery films
- Fiction films
- Burglars -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Film noir
- Content1
- Actor11
- Author2
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- Director1
- resource.directorofphotography1
- resource.editorofmovingimagework1
- Film distributor1
- Is Part Of1
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- Narrator1
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