Night and the city [videorecording] / [presented by] Twentieth Century-Fox ; produced by Samuel G. Engel ; screenplay by Jo Eisinger ; directed by Jules Dassin.
Other Titles: Night and the city (Motion picture : 1950).
Night and the city.
Publisher: Irvington, NY : Chicago, IL : Criterion Collection ; Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, [2005]
ISBN: 155940955X
Description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series: The Criterion collection ; 274
Subject: Greco-Roman wrestling Drama.
Wrestling promoters England Drama.
Ambition Drama.
Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Credits: Director of photography, Max Greene ; art director, C.P. Norman ; editor, Nick DeMaggio, Sidney Stone ; music, Franz Waxman ; costume designers, Oleg Cassini, Margaret Furse.
Performers: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: Not rated.
Notes: Closed-captioned.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
Based on the novel by Gerald Kersh.
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by film scholar Glenn Erickson; video interview with director Jules Dassin; excerpts from a 1972 French interview with Dassin; 'Two versions, two scores', a look at the two different scores composed for the British and American releases of the film; new essay by film critic Paul Arthur; original theatrical trailer.
Summary: Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
