The Naked City
1948VOTE NOW
| Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 4, 1948 |
Starring:
Adelaide Klein, Anne Sargent, Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Dorothy Hart, Frank Conroy, Grover Burgess, House Jameson, Howard Duff, Ted de Corsia
Summary:
Two New York City detectives investigate the death of an attractive young woman. The apparent suicide turns out to be murder.
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Shot on the streets of New York and offering vistas of the city before all the glass and steel skyscrapers, The Naked City, which won Oscars for cinematography and editing, boasts an impressive pedigree. [04 Jan 2004]
Throughout, despite its omniscient, stark melodrama, there has been no sight lost of an element of humor. Barry Fitzgerald, as the film’s focal point, in playing the police lieutenant of the homicide squad, strides through the role with tongue in cheek, with Don Taylor as his young detective aide.
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There are countless more fascinating facets to this city than the work of cops with crime and countless more striking characters in it than genial detectives and mumbling crooks. However, within that range of interest, Mr. Hellinger has done a vivid job in this, his appropriate valedictory, which comes to you spontaneous and unrehearsed.
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The drab script is by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald; the film is visually impressive only.
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