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The Naked City (Criterion Collection)

 

  Directed by Jules Dassin

US 1948 / Mystery / Police Dective / Film Noir / Urban / 96 min / Black & White / Monaural / 1.33: 1 / NTSC /  In English with Optional English Subtitles
Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia, House Jameson, Anne Sargent

“There are eight million stories in the Naked City,” as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film—and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger’s dazzling police procedural, The Naked City, was shot entirely on location in New York. As influenced by Italian neorealism as American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner, The Naked City remains a benchmark for naturalism in noir, living and breathing in the promises and perils of the Big Apple, from its lowest depths to its highest skyscrapers.

 
       

Bonus Features:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by screenwriter Malvin Wald
An analysis of the film’s New York locations by Celluloid Skyline author James Sanders
A new video interview with NYU film professor Dana Polan
Footage of Jules Dassin from his 2004 appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Theatrical trailer
Stills gallery