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The Naked City (1948) is a black-and-white policier-style film noir, directed by Jules Dassin. Based on a story by Malvin Wald, the film depicts the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, to find the girl's killer. The movie, shot partially in documentary style, was filmed on location on the streets of New York City and features landmarks such as the Williamsburg Bridge, the Whitehall Building, and an apartment building on West 83rd Street in Manhattan as the scene of the murder.
The film received two Academy Awards, one for cinematography for William H. Daniels, and another for film editing to Paul Weatherwax. In 2007, The Naked City was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In the late hours of a hot New York summer night, a pair of men subdue and kill Jean Dexter, an ex-model, by knocking her out with chloroform and drowning her in her bathtub. When one of the murderers, conscience-stricken, gets drunk, the other kills him, then lifts his body into the air and throws it into the East River.
Opening sequence of Jules Dassin's 1948 film, The Naked City.
williamsburg bridge and lower east side circa 1948 from the film The Naked City
1.01 [--] Naked City: MERIDIAN (30 min) 30Sep58 Directed by Jerry Hopper Written by Stirling Silliphant Starring: John McIntire (as Det. Lt. Muldoon), James Franciscus (as Det. Halloran), Horace McMahon (as Lt. Mike Parker) Al Hodge Joey Walsh Bill Zuckert Alison Marshall Pat DeSimone Frank Downing Miriam Acevedo Barbara Banks Synopsis: Shortly after being assigned to work together, Muldoon and Halloran are called to the lavish New York Coliseum, where two young thugs who’ve just shot a policeman during a robbery have taken two sporting-goods clerks as hostages. Episode Guide Courtesy: http://ctva.biz/US/Crime/NakedCity.htm Synopsis: Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which aired from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspir...
The Naked City (Film-Noir Film 1948) Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. Filmed entirely on location in New York City.
"La ciudad desnuda"
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. Filmed entirely on location in New York City.
4.21 [125] Naked City: PRIME OF LIFE (60 min) 13Feb63 Directed by Walter E. Graumann Written by Stirling Silliphant Gene Hackman Barnard Hughes C.M. Campel Dort Clark Richard Hamilton Synopsis: Detective Adam Flint goes to Sing Sing Prison to attend the execution of a murder suspect he helped to apprehend, despite objections to making the trip upstate. [JB] Synopsis: Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which aired from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture The Naked City and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format. As in the film, each episode concluded with a narrator intoning the iconic line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." The Naked City ep...
2.18 [57] Naked City: THE DEADLY GUINEA PIG (60 min) 08Mar61 Directed by William A. Graham Written by Jay Dratler Viveca Lindfors ..... Lulu Kronen Eugenie Leontovich .. Mama Kelle Barry Morse ......... Dr. Paul Multer George Voskovec ..... Professor von Bunow Peter Turgeon ....... Bob Tower Mike Kellin ......... Anton Richard Kronold ..... Plainclothesman Robert Dryden ....... Police Surgeon Synopsis: All that remains after a furious gun battle are the corpses of a policeman and an unidentified man. Flint and Parker discover that the policeman is a woman and the man is a former Nazi SS officer. [RF] Episode Guide Courtesy: http://ctva.biz/US/Crime/NakedCity.htm Synopsis: Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which aired from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963 on the ...
Here's the introduction from a March 1961 episode of "Naked City," the acclaimed 1958-1963, ABC-TV police drama starring Paul Burke and Horace McMahon.
1.19 [--] Naked City: THE SHIELD (30 min) 03Feb59 Directed by John Brahm Starring: John McIntire as (Det. Lt. Muldoon), James Franciscus (as Det. Halloran), Horace McMahon (as Lt. Mike Parker) Vic Morrow .......... David Greco Jack Klugman ........ Patrolman Greco Margaret H. Lenert .. Mrs. Greco Gino Ardito Walter Kinsella Vincent Van Lynn Sheldon Koretz Lester Mack Synopsis: Young David Greco tries to avenge the stabbing of his father, a patrolman. Over the objections of Dan Muldoon, David takes over his father's beat. He ends up gallantly wrestling the killer to the ground and holding him for the police. [RF] Episode Guide Courtesy: http://ctva.biz/US/Crime/NakedCity.htm Synopsis: Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which aired from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to...
1.01 [--] Naked City: MERIDIAN (30 min) 30Sep58 Directed by Jerry Hopper Written by Stirling Silliphant Starring: John McIntire (as Det. Lt. Muldoon), James Franciscus (as Det. Halloran), Horace McMahon (as Lt. Mike Parker) Al Hodge Joey Walsh Bill Zuckert Alison Marshall Pat DeSimone Frank Downing Miriam Acevedo Barbara Banks Synopsis: Shortly after being assigned to work together, Muldoon and Halloran are called to the lavish New York Coliseum, where two young thugs who’ve just shot a policeman during a robbery have taken two sporting-goods clerks as hostages. Episode Guide Courtesy: http://ctva.biz/US/Crime/NakedCity.htm Synopsis: Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which aired from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspir...
Opening sequence of Jules Dassin's 1948 film, The Naked City.
Album: Naked City Year: 1990 Genre: Avant-garde Jazz Producer: John Zorn
1.10 [--] Naked City: THE OTHER FACE OF GOODNESS (30 min) 02Dec58 Directed by Stuart Rosenberg Starring: John McIntire as (Det. Lt. Muldoon), James Franciscus (as Det. Halloran), Horace McMahon (as Lt. Mike Parker) Gerald Gordon ....... Walt Brown Loretta Leversee .... Nova Arnold Merritt ...... Jimmy Barrick David J. Stewart .... Professor Frank Campanella .... Cameraman John Gibson ......... City Editor Synopsis: A college student on the brink of insanity, after reading accounts of a frantic search for the killer of several young pregnant women, confesses to the murders. Released after police conclude his innocence, his mind cracks when he hears that the real killer has been found, and he tries to strangle a pregnant neighbor. Episode Guide Courtesy: http://ctva.biz/US/Crime/Naked...
All the victims have turned to stone, no one is happy, they're all alone
I'd sacrifice my social position tonight
In New York, millionaires, and lonely people with lonely stares
I'm not lookin' for love and I'm lost in this night
In the naked city (in the city) there are ten million stories (naked city)
I'm not lookin' for pity (in the city) in this naked city (naked city)
Street vampires in the night, young lovers and love at first sight
This is my flesh and my fantasy
Older women with younger men, I've got a feelin' I'm in trouble again
But I've got to live my destiny
In the naked city (in the city) it's a race with the devil (naked city)
All the pain and the sorrow (in the city) is there more tomorrow (naked city)
In the naked, naked city (in the city) naked city
Lonely people lookin' for someone, lonely people goin' their way
Lonely people lookin' for something, lonely people goin' their way
In New York, millionaires, lonely people with lonely stares
I'm not lookin' for love and I'm lost in this night
In the naked city, there are ten million stories
I'm not lookin' for pity in this naked city
In the naked, naked city (in the city), it's a race with the devil (naked city)
All the pain and the sorrow (in the city) is there more tomorrow (naked city)
(In the city, naked city) (repeats out)