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The Naked City is a 1948 American crime procedural produced by Mark Hellinger; directed by Jules Dassin; and written by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, from a story by Wald. Starring Barry Fitzgerald, with Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, and Don Taylor in support, the film depicts the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. It was shot almost entirely on location in New York City.
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One of the brief periods when Hollywood tried to escape traditional patterns and allow some experimentation occurred immediately after the Second World War, although it was mainly limited to the realm of crime films. Together with the new style later known as “film noir” came a striving for maximum realism that made critics call these new Hollywood crime films “semi-documentary”. One such work with the greatest impr…More
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Continuing on from my recent fascination of film noir I have taken upon visiting the western side of filmmaking that I have otherwise neglected in the past in favour of international creations. Today I spent some time watching through The Naked City, of which I came across the other day when watching other films and searching for a few films to add to a watch list. The Naked City is one that appeared in a film noir…More