Night and the City

Night and the City is a 1950 film based on the novel by Gerald Kersh, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. Shot on location in London, the plot evolves around a ambitious hustler whose plans keep going wrong. It is considered a classic of the film noir genre. Director Dassin later confessed that he never read the novel the movie is based upon. The casting of Tierney in the film was in direct response to film studio executives wanting a love interest in the film. The film had two completely different film scores, one for the U.K. release and one for the U.S. release.

Cast

• Richard Widmark as Harry Fabian
• Gene Tierney as Mary Bristol
• Googie Withers as Helen Nosseross
• Hugh Marlowe as Adam Dunne
• Francis L. Sullivan as Phil Nosseross, Silver Fox Club
• Herbert Lom as Kristo
• Stanislaus Zbyszko as Gregorius the Great
• Mike Mazurki as The Strangler