A Dassin Dossier
Mar 25, 2009J. Hoberman’s got a sharp and snazzy piece in the New York Times on American expat director Jules Dassin—just in time for Film Forum’s fifteen-film retrospective...
Synopsis
“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 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
Cast
| Lt. Dan Muldoon | Barry Fitzgerald |
| Frank Niles | Howard Duff |
| Ruth Morrison | Dorothy Hart |
| Jimmy Halloran | Don Taylor |
| Capt. Donahue | Frank Conroy |
| Willie Garzah | Ted de Corsia |
| Dr. Stoneman | House Jameson |
| Mrs. Halloran | Anne Sargent |
Credits
| Director | Jules Dassin |
| Producer | Mark Hellinger |
| Screenplay | Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald |
| Story by | Malvin Wald |
| Cinematography | William Daniels |
| Music | Miklós Rózsa and Frank Skinner |
| Art direction | John F. DeCuir |
| Editing | Paul Weatherwax |
Disc 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
- Stills gallery
- PLUS: A new essay by Luc Sante and production notes from producer Mark Hellinger to Dassin
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