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The Naked City (1948)

Directed by Jules Dassin

Crime | Film Noir

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Overview

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Rated NR | Length 96 minutes

Actors

Barry Fitzgerald | Howard Duff | Dorothy Hart | Don Taylor | Frank Conroy | Ted de Corsia | House Jameson | Anne Sargent | Adelaide Klein | Grover Burgess | Tom Pedi | Enid Markey | Mark Hellinger | Jean Adair | Celia Adler | Janie Alexander | Joyce Allen | Beverly Bayne | Ralph Brooks | Harris Brown | Ralph Bunker | Walter Burke | Alexander Campbell | Retta Coleman | G. Pat Collins | Curt Conway | Russ Conway | Grace Coppin | William Cottrell | Harold Crane | Sarah Cunningham | Johnny Dale | Denise Doyle | Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig | Paul Ford | Andre D. Foster | Kathleen Freeman | Pearl Gaines | Earle Gilbert | Bruce Gordon | William E. Green | Raymond Greenleaf | James Gregory | Chuck Hamilton | Robert H. Harris | Percy Helton | Bern Hoffman | Cavada Humphrey | Edwin Jerome | Nicholas Joy | Joe Kerr | Judson Laire | Perc Launders | Marion Leeds | George Lynn | John Marley | John McQuade | Carl Milletaire | Virginia Mullen | Arthur O'Connell | David Opatoshu | Lee Shumway | Hester Sondergaard | John Randolph | William Cottrell

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Viewing Notes

I admit that movies that rely heavily on voice overs tend to lose me.

The Naked City starts that way and I prepared myself to get annoyed, but the excellent cinematography and the crime story within the larger panorama does a great job of lifting the film out and letting it shine.

The crime and subsequent investigation are the precursors to every police procedural since.

Shot on location in New York City, the city itself becomes a main character in the movie, and it never looked better.

Considered on of the noir classics and well worth a watch.

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