Film

Night and the City 1950

Directed by Jules Dassin

  • Drama, Crime
  • 95 min

The inside story of London after dark.

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • earnestironic
  • warmbleak
  • rawmeticulous

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