Night and the City Wikipedia. Night and the City is a 1. Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers. It is based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Kersh. Shot on location in London and at Shepperton Studios, the plot revolves around an ambitious hustler whose plans keep going wrong. Director Dassin later confessed that he never read the novel the movie is based upon. In an interview appearing on The Criterion Collection DVD release, Dassin recalls that the casting of Tierney was in response to a request by Darryl Zanuck, who was concerned that personal problems had rendered the actress suicidal, and hoped that work would improve her state of mind. The films British version was five minutes longer, with a more upbeat ending and featuring a completely different film score. Dassin endorsed the American version as closer to his vision. The film contains a very tough and prolonged fight scene between Stanislaus Zbyszko, a celebrated professional wrestler in real life, and Mike Mazurki, who before becoming an actor was himself a professional wrestler, which leads to the death of Zbyszkos character. Harry Fabian Widmark is an ambitious American hustler and con man operating in London, always looking for a better deal. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol Tierney, nightclub owner and businessman Phil Nosseross Sullivan, and Helen Withers, who is Phils estranged wife. While attempting a con at a wrestling match, Fabian witnesses Gregorius Zbyszko, a veteran Greek wrestler, arguing with his son Kristo Lom, who has organised the fight, and who effectively controls all wrestling in London. After denouncing Kristos event as tasteless exhibitionism that shames the sports Greco Roman traditions, Gregorius leaves with Nikolas Richmond, a fellow wrestler. Fabian catches up with the two and befriends them, having realised that he can host wrestling in London without interference from Kristo if he can persuade his father to support the enterprise. Fabian approaches Phil and Helen with his proposal, then asks for an investment. Incredulous, Phil offers to provide half of the required 4. Fabian can equal it. Night and the City is a 1950 film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers. It is based on the novel of the same. What is Devils Film Devils Film has been the forerunner of teen porn, MILF sex videos, IR gangbangs, tranny porn, fetish sex and hardcore gonzo anal. Watch 1,150 quality movies online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries showcasing the talent of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. Check out a our huge library of HD Latest Updates AllCategories porn videos, with MILFs, teens IR gangbangs on devilsfilm. Wasted money on unreliable and slow multihosters LinkSnappy is the only multihost that works. Download from ALL Filehosts as a premium user at incredibly fast speedsDesperate, Fabian asks Figler, a panhandler and unofficial head of an informal society of street criminals, Googin, a forger, and Anna, a Thameside smuggler, but none can offer any help. Fabian is eventually approached by Helen, who offers the 2. Phil recently bought for her. Fabian agrees, but tricks Helen by having Googin forge the licence. Meanwhile, Phil is visited by associates of Kristo, who warn him to keep Fabian away from Londons wrestling scene. The Castro Theatre is San Franciscos Historic Movie Palace. Already suspecting Helen of duplicity, Phil neglects to warn Fabian, who proceeds to open his own gym with Gregorius and Nikolas as the stars, and Phil as a silent partner. A furious Kristo visits the gym, only to discover that his father is supporting Fabians endeavour. Meeting with Phil, the two plot to kill Fabian, but realise that they can only do so if Gregorius leaves Fabian. Phil meets with Fabian and removes his backing, suggesting that Fabian get Nikolas and The Strangler Mazurki, a showy wrestler favoured by Kristo, into the ring together to keep the business going, knowing that Gregorius would never allow it. Finding The Stranglers manager, Mickey Beer Farrell, Fabian convinces him to support the fight, and taunts The Strangler into confronting Gregorius and Nikolas. Gregorius agrees to the fight, convinced by Fabian that it will prove that his style of wrestling is superior. Beer asks Fabian for 2. Fabian asks Phil for the money. Instead, Phil calls Kristo, informing him that The Strangler is in Fabians gym. Betrayed, Fabian steals the money from Mary, and returns to the gym. However, The Strangler goads Gregorius into a prolonged and brutal fight, during which Nikolas wrist is broken. Gregorius eventually defeats The Strangler in the ring as Kristo arrives, but dies minutes later in his sons arms from exhaustion. Seeing that both his business and protection are lost, Fabian flees. In revenge of his fathers death, Kristo puts a 1,0. Fabians head, sending word to all of Londons underworld. Fabian is hunted through the night, first by Kristos men, then by Figler, who attempts to trap Fabian for the reward. Convinced that her licence is authentic, Helen leaves Phil, only to discover that the work is a worthless forgery. She returns to Phil in desperation, only to discover that he has committed suicide, leaving everything to Molly Reeve, the clubs elderly cleaner and flower stand operator. Fabian eventually finds shelter at Annas, but has already been tracked down by Kristo. Mary arrives, and Fabian attempts to redeem himself by shouting to Kristo that Mary betrayed him, so that she will get the reward. As he runs towards where Kristo is standing on Hammersmith Bridge, he is caught and killed by The Strangler, who throws his body into the Thames. The Strangler is arrested moments later, and Kristo walks away from the scene. Critical reactioneditThe film has been noted as ground breaking in its lack of sympathetic characters, the deadly punishment of its protagonist in the American version, and especially in its realistic portrayal of triumph by racketeers neither slowed nor at all worried by the machinations of law. Critics of the time did not react well typical was Bosley Crowthers review in The New York Times, which read in part,Dassins evident talent has been spent upon a pointless, trashy yarn, and the best that he has accomplished is a turgid pictorial grotesque. London night club tout to corner the wrestling racketan ambition in which he fails. And there is only one character in it for whom a decent, respectable person can give a hoot. The film was first re evaluated in the 1. Writing for Slant Magazine, Nick Schager said,Jules Dassins 1. America for alleged communist politics, and the unpleasant ordeal seems to have infused his work with a newfound resentment and pessimism, as the filmabout foolhardy scam artist Harry Fabian Richard Widmark and his ill advised attempts to become a big shotbrims with anger, anxiousness, and a shocking dose of unadulterated hatred. In The Village Voice, film critic Michael Atkinson wrote,. Wellesianchiaroscuro shot by Max Greene, n Mutz Greenbaum and an occasionally discomfiting underworld plunge, particularly when the mob controlled wrestling milieu explodes into a kidney punching donnybrook. In Street with No Name A History of the Classic American Film Noir film critic Andrew Dickos acclaims it as one of the seminal noirs of the classical period. Dassin created a work of emotional power and existential drama that stands as a paradigm of noir pathos and despair. PreservationeditThe Academy Film Archive preserved Night and the City in 2. Home videoeditThe film was released in DVD Region 1 in February 2. The Criterion Collection and in Region 2 by the BFI in October 2. Both discs contained the US version only. Criterion reissued their DVD as a 2 disc edition, now containing both the US and UK versions, alongside a new Blu ray in August 2. In September 2. 01. BFI also released the film on Blu ray, again containing both versions. ReferenceseditThe 1. Best Film Noirs of All Time. Paste. 9 August 2. Retrieved 9 August 2. Night and the City at The Criterion Collection. Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, 1. Divx Xvid Movies South Park there. June 1. 95. 0. Last accessed 3 December 2. Schager, Nick. Slant Magazine, DVD review of the film, 1. February 2. 00. 5. Last accessed 3 December 2. Atkinson, Michael. The Village Voice, film review, 2. March 2. 00. 3. Last accessed 3 December 2. Preserved Projects. Academy Film Archive. BibliographyeditHarry Tomicek Der Wahnsinnslufer. Night and The City. Jules Dassin, Kamera Max Greene 1. In Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta eds. Schatten. Exil. Europische Emigranten im Film Noir. PVS, Vienna 1. 99. ISBN 3 9. 01. 19. External linksedit.