Night and the City

Night and the City

  • Director: Jules Dassin
  • Writer: Jo Eisinger,Gerald Kersh,Austin Dempster
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: June 28, 1950
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Noc i grad
  • "Night and the City" is a noir film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Nick .
    The film tells the story of Harry, a pimp who is looking for opportunities to make a fortune, hopes to make a profit by organizing a wrestling match, but he is chased by a gang because of accidents and frame-ups   . The film was released in the UK in April 1950.

    Details

    • Release date June 28, 1950
    • Filming locations Hammersmith Bridge, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
    • Production companies Twentieth Century-Fox Productions

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $43,024

    Movie reviews

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    • By Misael 2022-12-02 01:04:01

      Everyone is innocent

      Harry just wants to succeed;
      Mary just wants a family;
      Helen just wants Harry’s love;
      Christo just respects and loves his father;
      the owner of Silver Fox just wants to defend his relationship with Helen;
      Philip just wants to fight Get the honor of being a boxer;
      Fagan just wants money;
      they just want...

      In fact, I admire the hero’s spirit of pursuing his dreams. From a certain point of view, he is also "very good"; It's a pity that time doesn't wait...

    • By Lesly 2022-11-20 20:28:09

      Night and Twilight

      Film noir is often a story about an unstable balance being disrupted, and the disturbing factors that disrupt the balance often take the form of femme fatale. Balance is the protagonist of the story (most of the time it is the male protagonist, but occasionally there are heroines who are seduced by homme fatal, such as The Prowler) living a peaceful and stable life. The instability lies in the fact that they treat themselves this way. This kind of life has a kind of faint dissatisfaction and...

    • By Bethany 2022-10-21 14:29:07

      The true colors of the world

      Jules Dassin’s noir film has a tight rhythm. It takes Harry the hotel pimp as the protagonist. It starts from its humble social role and the psychology of a greedy and speculative gambler. It ends with what appears to be a chance. Still lost his life. The characters in the film are full of images. Under the numerous close-up shots and the dark night and rushing perspective, what I want to express is not just the proposition that the male protagonist is self-sufficient. In an environment where...

    • By Daniela 2022-05-06 06:01:08

      The person chased in the night

      The true nature of the four seas highlights Harry’s low-level desires in life. He always wants to be rich and noble and live a comfortable life for the rich. He has been running around, speculating, camping, approaching the rich, hoping to get help and extra money from them. , Soliciting business for bars, contacting poor people to invest in stocks, etc., as long as opportunities are not let go, they will eventually lead to death.

      In a society of capitalist desire, every...

    • By Renee 2022-05-06 06:01:08

      The movie is a tragedy in which entrepreneurship is not halfway through

      The winner is the king and the loser is Kou, becoming a black boss movie like "The Godfather" and "Good Guy". However, this movie reflects the struggle of a low-level person who is determined to climb up. However, this is not a godfather movie, but a tragedy of "the entrepreneurial business is not half but the middle way collapses". At the end of the film, where the hero leads a good life for the heroine, it is comparable to O Henry's satirical novels and Hsing Shinichi's satirical novels,...

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    • By Bernita 2023-09-29 18:36:52

      The life and death of a pimp, sinful Forrest Gump (Harry Fabian) - my whole life is running" / I just want to be somebody / An artist who has no sense of art, he Constructed from mind, courage, eager imagination and a wave of illusion. Silver Fox Private Club (sex) and seaside wrestling ring (force), primitive ecological battlefield. Sense of time: The story begins again with breakfast (Part 1) .The wife's photo on the wall (Helen, the alluring beauty in the battle of Troy, another copy of...

    • By Lexie 2023-09-26 14:56:51

      The black belly fat boss still can't escape a love...

    • By Lexie 2023-09-18 13:54:11

      It's more like a British production: stories of little people, rich textual meaning, excellent film language. There are some plots of father and son in the movie, but the whole is a variation of the American dream story: people who are dissatisfied with the current life and chasing dreams at the expense of escape, trying to change their own destiny, and finally fell in front of hope, and the world returns. To the original position (also with a strong class consciousness in the specific plot)....

    • By Lionel 2023-09-12 05:54:46

      A low-level poor man who is trying to prove himself will be hysterical and crazy when he seizes a chance. However, the dream of getting rich overnight is always destroyed by various accidents, just as the protagonist is always running at night, and he can't wait for the...

    • By Jarrell 2023-08-14 05:40:04

      I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy. Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was "dead". I said to him: You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes well you just might find... You get what you need.——The Rolling...

    Movie plot

    Harry is a pimp who helps the bar soliciting customers. He has never given up his desire to make a big deal, looking around for opportunities to make a fortune. He has an ambiguous relationship with the wife of the bar fat boss Philip's wife Helen ( GoogieWithers ) , and Philip is aware of it.
    Harry hopes to make a profit by organizing wrestling matches, which arouses dissatisfaction with the gang in charge of wrestling matches in...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The film was changed from the novel of the same name by Gerald Kersh. The director Jules Dassin was on the anti-American blacklist. Therefore, the producer asked him to go to London to make the film. In order to keep pace, he just shot according to the script. He didn't read the original text of the novel until the filming was completed, because the British in London in his film did not buy it because of the different perspectives, but...
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    Evaluation action

    This is a creepy film set in post-war London   . It is a representative work of film noir. The director has not read the original text of the novel until the shooting is completed, but he has accurately adjusted the keynote of the film, making the film always permeated with the despair and tension of the small characters. He emphasizes the depiction of people who are doomed after being abandoned by strong forces. Destiny   . (Director...
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    Movie quotes

    • Adam Dunne: Harry is an artist without an art.

      Mary Bristol: What does that mean?

      Adam Dunne: Well, that is something that could make a man very unhappy, Mary, groping for the right level, the means with which to express himself.

      Mary Bristol: Yes, he is that. Is not he? I like that, Adam. It is a very nice thought.

      Adam Dunne: Yes, but it can be dangerous.

    • Harry Fabian: [to Figler] How much are you sellin' me for?

    • Mary Bristol: Harry, do you know what you're doing? You're killing me. You're killing me and yourself.