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Title : Night and the City [Blu-ray]
Category: Movies
Brand: Criterion Collection (Direct)
Item Page Download URL : Download MOVIE File
Rating : 4.5
Buyer Review : 6




Review :
An excellent, underrated 1950s film noir

Another fine film noir by blacklisted American director Jules Dassin... The plot involves a small-time street hustler in London who tries to make his mark as a fight promoter, only to find organized crime's stranglehold over the wrestling business tougher to overcome that he imagined. Richard Widmark's hoodlum, Harry Fabian, is a fast-talking small-fry, an ambitious, overreaching punk who undoes himself at every turn, and digs himself in deeper and deeper with each confrontation against the city's kingpin. Fabian has a lot in common with Tony Curtis' Sidney Falco character in "Sweet Smell Of Success." This flick doesn't share the shrill, hysterical tone of that later film, and it's the seeming cool of the characters -- and our awareness of what a loser Fabian actually is -- that give this movie its nauseating, irresistible sense of suspense. Nice... one of Widmark's best roles!

Hard to be a film buff if you have never seen Richard Widmark play Harry Fabian
There are probably a lot of younger people who have no idea who Richard Widmark was as an actor. They are really missing something for he was a class act in playing the ultimate sleaze characters. This sleaze-ball, Harry Fabian, might well have been his master work. That the Director was Jules Dassin united Widmark with a talent who really knew how to make dark films.

Harry Fabian tries to score big by promoting fights. However, he fails to take into account how big a factor organized crime is in this business. What sets this apart though is that Widmark lets us see that Harry is an even bigger menace to himself than his gangster enemy. He is a fast-talking punk who outsmarts himself at every turn. But it is Harry's fear as the film builds to its crescendo which really makes it. After one failed hustle after another, he finally has to literally run for his life. Widmark was a master at transforming sleaze into terror.

Made in 1950, this film marks our growing...
In The Night
This is a review for the VHS tape of Jules Dassin's film noir
NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950). NIGHT AND THE CITY stars Richard Widmark
as Harry Fabian, a hustler on the short con who mostly works on
those taking shortcuts with the law anyway.

Harry Fabian comes across a wrestling great from the past, Gregorius, wonderfully played by Stanislaus Zybyszko, an ardent advocate of Greco Roman Wrestling with a
young protege. Harry comes up with a scheme to promote the true style of wrestling,
as oppossed to the modern style which employs everything including fists, using
the two classic-style athletes. The only hitch is that the elder
wrestler, Gregorius, more a trainer now, is the father of the man
named, Kristo,played by Herbert Lom, who controls all wrestling in London.

Through hook or by crook, Harry Fabian, much in the style of a modern wrestler,
employs every tactic at his command to make his scheme work and is close...