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The naked city /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1687D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 380.Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Chatsworth, CA : Criterion Collection ; Distributed by Image Entertainment, ©2007Edition: [Fullscreen]Description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1934121312
  • 9781934121313
Other title:
  • Container title: Jules Dassin's The Naked City
  • Jules Dassin's Naked City
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.D4 J8547 2007
Online resources:
Partial contents:
Special features: Optional audio feature commentary with screenwriter Malvin Wald -- Interview with NYU film studies professor Dana Polan (ca. 28 min.) -- Interview with architect James Sanders, who discusses The Naked City's depiction of New York City in the 1940s (ca. 26 min.) -- Jules Dassin at LACMA (ca. 41 min. ; appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, after a screening of his film Rififi) -- Stills gallery.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, William Daniels ; editor, Paul Weatherwax ; art director, John F. DeCuir ; original music, Miklós Rózsa, Frank Skinner.
  • Academy Awards, USA, 1949: Oscar - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (William H. Daniels) ; Best Film Editing (Paul Weatherwax) ; Named to the National Film Registry in 2007 by the Library of Congress.
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia, House Jameson, Anne Sargent, Adelaide Klein, Grover Burgess, Tom Pedi, Enid Markey.Summary: Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people 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.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1160 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050122962

Booklet: a new essay by Luc Sante and production notes from producer Mark Hellinger to Dassin.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

Special features: Optional audio feature commentary with screenwriter Malvin Wald -- Interview with NYU film studies professor Dana Polan (ca. 28 min.) -- Interview with architect James Sanders, who discusses The Naked City's depiction of New York City in the 1940s (ca. 26 min.) -- Jules Dassin at LACMA (ca. 41 min. ; appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, after a screening of his film Rififi) -- Stills gallery.

Educational and home use only.

DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital mono.

Optional English SDH for the hearing impaired.

Academy Awards, USA, 1949: Oscar - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (William H. Daniels) ; Best Film Editing (Paul Weatherwax) ; Named to the National Film Registry in 2007 by the Library of Congress.

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