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Naked City

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Naked City
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NR,1hr 36min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
March 4, 1948
Director:
Jules Dassin
Distributor:
Universal Pictures
Starring:
Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart  ...more
Synopsis: Young model Jean Dexter is knocked unconscious and drowned in her own bathtub in her Manhattan apartment, and a lot of jewelry that she supposedly owned is missing. The Naked City is actually about six days in the life of New York City that coincide with the murder and the subsequent investigation by Lt. Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and Detective James Halloran (Don Taylor). The account of their work, and the workings of the New York City police department, is interspersed with brief vignettes ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
The Naked City has been hailed -- and rightfully so -- for effecting a transformation in the nature of crime dramas. Its exclusive use of actual New York City locations, coupled with Jules Dassin's fluid direction and the deliberately flat, unaffected acting style used by most of the cast, all lent a verisimilitude and immediacy to the film that was spellbinding in its time and is still bracing to ... Full Review
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Barry Fitzgerald
Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon
Howard Duff
Frank Niles
Dorothy Hart
Ruth Morrison
Don Taylor
Jimmy Halloran
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