Synopsis
The Naked City portrays 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, finding the girl's killer.
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Cast
- Barry FitzgeraldLt. Dan Muldoon
- Howard DuffFrank Niles
- Dorothy HartRuth Morrison
- Don TaylorJimmy Halloran
- Frank ConroyCaptain Donahue
- Ted de CorsiaWilly Garzah
- House JamesonDr. Lawrence Stoneman
- Anne SargentMrs. Halloran
- Adelaide KleinMrs. Batory
- Grover BurgessMr. Batory
Recommendations
- 100
TV Guide Magazine
This superlative film set the pattern for myriad documentary-type dramas to come. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Nearly 50 years later, The Naked City‘s Oscar-winning cinematography and editing still have resonance. - 90
The Observer (UK)
Both a landmark and some sort of masterpiece. - 83
The A.V. Club
Perhaps the best thing about Naked City is that it does justice to that source material. At times, it rivals Weegee's best work in its harsh, unsentimental portrayal of New York as a city with a dark side the size of the Hudson River. - 75
Chicago Reader
A first-rate police thriller (1948) directed by Jules Dassin when he was still in his prime and before he was blacklisted, shot memorably in New York locations. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Shot on the streets of New York and offering vistas of the city before all the glass and steel skyscrapers, The Naked City, which won Oscars for cinematography and editing, boasts an impressive pedigree. [04 Jan 2004] - 70
Variety
Throughout, despite its omniscient, stark melodrama, there has been no sight lost of an element of humor. Barry Fitzgerald, as the film’s focal point, in playing the police lieutenant of the homicide squad, strides through the role with tongue in cheek, with Don Taylor as his young detective aide. - 60
The New York Times
There are countless more fascinating facets to this city than the work of cops with crime and countless more striking characters in it than genial detectives and mumbling crooks. However, within that range of interest, Mr. Hellinger has done a vivid job in this, his appropriate valedictory, which comes to you spontaneous and unrehearsed.
