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Night and the City (1950)

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Criterion Coll.

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Review

Widmark is unnerving as a small-time hustler scouring the rubble of a decimated London barely recovered form the ravages of WWII. He facilitates small cons, setting up traveling businessmen for the benefit of his objectionable bar-owning boss. He thinks he sees a way out. With blind frenzy, he steals from the woman (Tierney) who loves him, connives the woman who would provide him with a lucrative set-up, and betrays the employer who supports him. Widmark scurries like a rat over London's bombed-out remains with an enthralling, hyperkinetic desperation used to great effect by director Dassin. (Remade in 1992)

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DVD : $35.99 (Criterion Collection)

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Close Caption: Yes
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515015721

Studio : Criterion

Languages: English Dolby Digital Mono (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.33
Extras: Trailers
Features:
Audio commentary: Film Scholar Glenn Erickson
Video Interview with Director Jules Dassin; Excerpts from a 1972 French Interview with Dassin; New Essay by film critic Paul Arthur
Documentaries: Two Versions, Two Scores a look at the two different scores composed for the British and American releases of the film