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Night and the City
Post-war London meets American film noir in this celebrated work by Hollywood blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin.
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Director
Jules Dassin
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With
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
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UK 1950. 95min
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Digital 4K (restoration)
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Certificate
12A
Dassin’s thriller follows Widmark’s Harry, an American hustler living in London and chasing easy money. By contrast, his girlfriend Mary wants him to settle down. Dassin, who was in the process of being blacklisted in Hollywood – the result of Communist witch-hunts – shoots on location in the city, creating a vividly atmospheric portrait of the dark underbelly of post-war London. It’s one of several films that Tierney made in the UK.
This is the American version of the film.
The screening of Night and the City on Tuesday 30 April will be introduced by BFI National Archive curator Josephine Botting.
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