Night and the City
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Short description
Harry Fabian is a small-time London hustler who works as a tipster for a Soho nightclub run by Phil Nosseross, always chasing a big break that never comes. His girlfriend, Mary, has grown tired of the money she keeps lending him. When Harry meets Gregorius, a celebrated Greco-Roman wrestling champion, he sees a way to make his fortune by promoting matches on his own. The plan puts him in direct conflict with Kristo, a gangster who controls wrestling in the city and happens to be Gregorius's son.
Jules Dassin directed the film, his fourth feature in the chronological list of his work, following Brute Force, The Naked City and Thieves' Highway, with Rififi, Never on Sunday, Topkapi and Uptight coming later. The screenplay is credited to Jo Eisinger, William E. Watts and Austin Dempster, and Samuel G. Engel produced. Richard Widmark plays Harry, with Francis L. Sullivan as Nosseross, Gene Tierney as Mary, Googie Withers as Helen Nosseross, Stanislaus Zbyszko as Gregorius and Herbert Lom as Kristo.
The British production was released in 1950 and runs 95 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.8 from around 16,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 7.5 from roughly 296 votes, indicating a strong reputation among viewers. A critics' rating of 8.1 from 22 reviews places it slightly above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Richard Widmark (1914-2008) lost a considerable amount of weight during filming due to the constant running.
- Director Jules Dassin claimed that he did not read the novel of the same name (1938) by Gerald Kersh (1912-1968), which served as the literary basis for this adaptation, until he had finished working on the film.
- Darryl F. Zanuck ordered this film, set in London, to be shot so that the film company could access at least a portion of the financial funds frozen there in accordance with British legislation of the time, which was characterized by protectionism in the film industry.
- Director Jules Dassin (1911-2008) filmed this movie while the process of blacklisting him was underway. Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979), head of 20th Century Fox studio, told Dassin that this might be his last film and advised him to shoot the most expensive scenes first, so that the studio wouldn't consider firing him before the film was completed.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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