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The Naked City
The film follows two detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran who are responsible for investigating the death of a attractive model Jean Dexter. She is murdered in her apartment and they suspect the murder wants to rob her property.
17 December 1902, Texas, USA
25 August 1908, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
July 4, 1907 in San Antonio, Texas, USA
28 January 1906, Cumberland, Maryland, USA
June 17, 1919 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
25 April 1913, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
4 April 1922, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
17 October 1907, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1885, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 September 1913, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 23, 2015
The movie is hard-hitting, gripping and a hymn to the excitement of New York City where it was shot entirely on location.July 06, 2011
The on-location photography and final minutes on the streets and bridge are impressive, but this noir is more memorable for what it inspired to follow it than in its slow talky self.January 26, 2006
A rather overrated police-procedure thriller which has gained its seminal status simply by its accent on ordinariness and by its adherence to the ideal of shooting on location.May 30, 2007
Affords the viewer a look at a type of city life that has long since disappeared, giving the film a kind of documentary time-capsule flavor.December 26, 2016
Outstanding mystery with brilliant location photography in New York City.March 25, 2006
A definite parochial fascination is liberally assured all the way and the seams in a none-too-good whodunnit are rather cleverly concealed.October 23, 2015
Both a landmark and some sort of masterpiece.January 01, 2000
A first-rate police thriller.November 05, 2014
If this is noir, it's the most brightly lit, least antisocial noir ever.March 09, 2007
What The Naked City does is paint an indelible vision of both the New York City that never sleeps and of the human life and industry that teems within itJuly 03, 2008
Throughout, despite its omniscient, stark melodrama, there has been no sight lost of an element of humor.February 17, 2011
One of Jules Dassin's best features is a quintessential film noir, distinguished by its on-location shooting and Daniels' sharp imagery, which deservedly won the Oscar