Event Details
American director Jules Dassin’s British noir follows Harry (Richard Widmark), a small-time hustler dreaming of dominating the wrestling racket. When he double-crosses London’s underworld, his lies become a death warrant in the city’s merciless alleys.
Shot in the UK while Dassin was fleeing persecution and the Hollywood blacklist, Night and the City is the first of several films he made abroad in Britain, France, and Greece. This rare original nitrate print is of the British release version of the film, which runs six minutes longer than the US release and features alternate opening and closing scenes as well as a score by prolific British composer Benjamin Frankel.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1950 | 96 min. | UK/USA | Black-and-White | English | Not Rated | 35mm nitrate
DIRECTED BY: Jules Dassin
WRITTEN BY: Jo Eisinger
WITH: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
35mm nitrate collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.