The Naked City (1948)
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment and homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie... The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. All filmed on location. (imdb)
Country: USA
Directed By: Jules Dassin
Written By: Albert Maltz, Malvin Wald
Starring: John Randolph, James Gregory, Ted de Corsia, Barry Fitzgerald, Nehemiah Persoff, Howard Duff, John Marley, Kathleen Freeman, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Dorothy Hart, Beverly Bayne
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Probably the most engaging police procedural I've seen. Astonishing in it's dedication to down to earth representation of peoples and places, it's barely marked by any trace of overt generic convention, and, in this, achieves a feeling of total immediacy. This was a riveting, continually surprising, highly recommendable watch. It really is a pity about the incessant narration, but I might pretend it wasn't there so I can justify my kneejerk score.
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This probably passed for gritty realism at the time, but it hasn't aged particularly well, It's wonderful to see the NYC exteriors, since so much of that beauty has disappeared, supplanted by pre-fab corporate shite. The plot--and especially the narration is fairly cheesy, but it gets going the last half hour. And after telling us none if it was filmed in studio, several scenes were clearly shot in a studio and given a fake backdrop later. Barry Fitzgerald is quite the character.
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Exciting and tense without any complicating factors. The style and feel of the film were especially interesting.
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Great film.
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Star Rating: ★★★1/2
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Two NYPD homicide detectives (Barry Fitzgerald and Don Taylor) search for a playgirl's killer. A suitor of hers (Howard Duff) holds the key, but how? Revolutionary at the time for its semi-documentary style and location shooting, it remains fairly engrossing 65 years on, with the Oscar-winning cinematography and editing continuing to impress. The story is fairly standard and the acting isn't that great (aside from Barry Fitzgerald, who's wonderfully wily), but it's more than worth seeing once.
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Procedurals largely bore me. It's a genre that usually focuses more on pure plot detail than character or psychology, and this is really no different. The photography is pretty great, the whole film being filmed on location in New York City and Dassin's direction being quite dynamic and punchy at times. But the grandiose language in the narration doesn't match the narrative, which is pretty much a dud.
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Interesting that after a scrolling through the reviews that the narration in this movie seemed a sticking point for why people didn't rate this higher. I found the narration to be top notch, highly entertaining and a great way to drive both the story and compliment the city imagery (which is beautifully shot). Sure it leaves little to the imagination, but I didn't expect a huge mystery, I enjoyed being led along. It was engrossing and the last narrated lines topped that off brilliantly.
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Considering it is from 1948 it is surprisingly well aged for the most part. It''s the parts that are not , that weigh it down and keep it from being a real classic. Still worth a watch as the cinematography is ahead of its time.
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