The Naked City (1948)

The Naked City (1948) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Jules Dassin and produced by Mark Hellinger and Jules Buck.

The Naked City was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007.

Academy Awards 1948 --- Ceremony Number 21 (source: AMPAS)

Give Noir a Chance: The Naked City (1948)

I?ve had an idea for a new blog series for quite some time now, and I thought that today was a perfect day for my first entry. Over the decades, I?ve seen innumerable noirs ? some that I frankly don?t even remember, many that I?ve loved, and a few that left me cold despite their acclaim from critics... Read full article

ONE MOVIE, THREE QUOTES: The Naked City (1948)

ONE MOVIE, THREE QUOTES: The Naked City (1948) On March 12, 2022 By CarolIn Uncategorized Ahh, the Screenplay Oscars. Has there ever been a more confusing Academy Award category? Starting with the very first ceremony in 1929, they have had many iterations, names an... Read full article

The Naked City (1948): One Out of Eight Million Stories

The Naked City begins inauspiciously enough with a flyover of New York and an introduction by producer Mark Hellinger. It seems like we’ve seen this countless times before. It’s almost like a stock image. And yet in the case of this picture, it was really one of the forerunners of a move... Read full article

The Naked City (1948)

The Naked City (1948) On August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized ?Jean Dexter is dead. The answer must be somewhere down there.?, says our narrator, the film?s producer, Mark Hellinger. And he?s right. Down there, on the all too familiar streets of New Yo... Read full article

The Naked City (1948)

The Naked City Directed by Jules Dassin Written by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald 1948/USA Hellinger Productions/Universal International Pictures Repeat viewing/Netflix rental This film was ground-breaking in several ways. ?Seventy years of the same tropes appearing on prime-time TV makes it seem... Read full article