Film Noir Classics
Richard Widmark in
Jules Dassin’s
NIGHT AND THE CITY
Tuesday, June 6th at 7:30 PM
Members $12 | Public $17
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 plan with a famous wrestler. But there
is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft,
and pummeled flesh—and Fabian soon learns the horrible price of his ambition.
Luminously shot in the streets of London while Hollywood blacklisters back home
were closing in on director Jules Dassin, Night and the
City, also starring Gene Tierney, is film noir of the first
order, and one of Dassin’s crowning achievements. (UK, 1950, 96min., b/w,
DCP | Dir. Jules Dassin)
