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Criterion Collection: Night & The City (Night and the City)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) longs for "a life of ease and plenty." Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he tries to hatch a lucrative pIan with a famous wrestler. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting aIIiances, bottomless graft, and pummeIed fIesh-and Fabian soon learns the horribIe price of his ambition. Luminously shot in the streets of London whiIe HoIlywood blacklisters back home were cIosing in on director Jules Dassin Night and the City, also starring Gene Tierney, is fiIm noir of the first order, and one of Dassin's crowning achievements. |
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