The Naked City
“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 on location in New York. As influenced by Italian neorealism as by 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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by TLEFilms Film Restoration & Preservation Services, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 1996 featuring screenwriter Malvin Wald
- Interview with film scholar Dana Polan
- Interview with author James Sanders (Celluloid Skyline) on the film’s New York locations
- Footage of director Jules Dassin from a 2004 appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author and critic Lucy Sante and production notes sent from producer Mark Hellinger to Dassin in 1947
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by TLEFilms Film Restoration & Preservation Services, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 1996 featuring screenwriter Malvin Wald
- Interview with film scholar Dana Polan
- Interview with author James Sanders (Celluloid Skyline) on the film’s New York locations
- Footage of director Jules Dassin from a 2004 appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author and critic Lucy Sante and production notes sent from producer Mark Hellinger to Dassin in 1947
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Cast
- Barry Fitzgerald
- Lieutenant Dan Muldoon
- Howard Duff
- Frank Niles
- Dorothy Hart
- Ruth Morrison
- Don Taylor
- Jimmy Halloran
- Frank Conroy
- Captain Donahue
- Ted de Corsia
- Willie Garzah
- House Jameson
- Dr. Stoneman
- Anne Sargent
- Mrs. Halloran
- Adelaide Klein
- Mrs. Batory
- Grover Burgess
- Mr. Batory
- Tom Pedi
- Detective Perelli
- Enid Markey
- Mrs. Edgar Hylton
Credits
- Director
- Jules Dassin
- Producer
- Mark Hellinger
- Screenplay
- Albert Maltz
- Screenplay
- Malvin Wald
- Story by
- Malvin Wald
- Cinematography
- William Daniels
- Music
- Miklós Rózsa
- Music
- Frank Skinner
- Art direction
- John F. DeCuir
- Edited by
- Paul Weatherwax
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