Night and the City (1950)

Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. (imdb)
Genres: Suspense/Thriller, Crime
Country: UK
Directed By: Jules Dassin
Written By: Jo Eisinger, Gerald Kersh, Austin Dempster, William E. Watts
Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom, Mike Mazurki, James Hayter, Kay Kendall, Stanislaus Zbyszko

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Night and the City belongs to 50 collections
1. Criterion Collection (public: moderated by caffe - 154 stars)
2. Film Noir (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 54 stars)
3. Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need to See to Know Anything About Film (public - 38 stars)
4. They Shoot Pictures 250 Quintessential Noir Films (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 37 stars)
5. The Guardian's 1000 films to see before you die (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 27 stars)
6. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2012 revision) (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 25 stars)
7. Best of criticker: Top 250 (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 21 stars)
8. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (public: moderated by Cinephile - 18 stars)
9. Doubling The Canon (public - 13 stars)
10. Con Artist(s) (public: moderated by iceblox - 12 stars)
11. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
12. List: Essential Noirs in The Rough Guide to Film Noir's Canon (public: moderated by KasperL - 10 stars)
13. BFI 100 key Noir films (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 8 stars)
14. Best of criticker: Suspense / Thriller (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 8 stars)
15. Best of criticker: Crime (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 8 stars)
16. Criticker top 250 (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 8 stars)
17. BFI Film Classics (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 7 stars)
18. 1,000 Noir Films: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They? (public: moderated by lisa- - 7 stars)
19. Black and White Photography (public: moderated by JooJoo - 6 stars)
20. David Thomson's 1000 Films (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 6 stars)
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23. London (public: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
24. Foreign Classic Film Noir (public: moderated by Shmendrek - 4 stars)
25. TimeOut Magazine's 100 best British films (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 3 stars)
26. List: Noir of the Week (public: moderated by KasperL - 3 stars)
27. Remade (public: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 3 stars)
28. Best of criticker: Film Noir (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 2 stars)
29. Average Percentile >70 (public: moderated by peyrin - 2 stars)
30. List: Empire's masterpiece picks (public: moderated by KasperL - 1 star)
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41. Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) (private: PepeCamello - 2 stars)
42. Paste Magazine: The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (private: TychoCelchuu - 2 stars)
43. List: TSPDT's 100 Noir Films (private: KasperL - 1 star)
44. The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time: Slant Magazine (private: TychoCelchuu - 1 star)
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I didn't care what happened to any of the characters. I respect the gutsy ending though.
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Fantastic.It has a steady, slow-burning intensity with climactic scenes that are operatic in their conception and scope. Richard Widmark as the clever hustler--"an artist without an art"--is a wonder: he moves like a modern dancer, and one can't help pulling for the poor, naïve schlub. The rest of the cast is uniformly great, especially Francis L. Sullivan as the club owner, and Googie Withers as his wife--I'll never understand why she wasn't a bigger star.
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Richard Widmark is the perfect antihero. Charming, high energy, and the biggest weasel in noir. So much of Night and the City is reliant on Fabian's manic hustler energy who is desperate for the big score he's always been after. It's a thriller to see him scheme and play friends, colleagues, and fellow hoods to get what he wants. And it's heartbreaking to see the straight people fall for his schtick. Noir shows better than any other genre just how destructive a leech can be.
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An intense noir that never stops once it gets going and builds to a heart-pounding conclusion where no one truly wins. The control of shadows, especially shadows falling upon the actor's faces, is probably the best I've ever seen. And of course I must give praise to Widmark, for a performance that grabs you right from the get-go.
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The lead is just the right amount of batshit crazy, but unfortunately the rest of the setting doesn't give him much material to riff off of.
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scored for the cinematography
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Harry Fabian is a great character, whose last name speaks to his campaign of misdirection, deception, & inevitable retreat. Striving for "ease & plenty," Fabian possesses a manic energy that propels him through every confrontation & problem; his solution is inevitably some form of betrayal or deceit. His appetite for status ill fits with his capriciousness; there couldn't be a greater contrast with the smooth operators who yield real power, who regard their ill-gotten gains as a prerogative.
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Widmark is fantastic and the supporting cast are strong (though Tierney barely gets a chance to shine), and the story moves at a good pace, chronicling the downfall of a lowly hustler who overplays his own hand in trying to outsmart his enemies. There are a few nice twists and turns to this noir, but the ending feels a little abrupt and unbelievable despite its effective lack of sentimentality.
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