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Release Date:
4 March 1948 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Soul of a City - HER GLORY STRIPPED! HER PASSIONS BARED! (re-release print ad - many caps) more
Plot:
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model...
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Won 2 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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4 nominations
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(4 articles)
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(From Collider.com. 4 March 2009)
Spring Preview: A Repertory Calendar for the Coasts
(From IFC. 18 February 2009, 2:17 PM, PST)
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One of the 8,000,000 Stories of New York City
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Barry Fitzgerald | ... | Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon |
| Howard Duff | ... | Frank Niles |
 | Dorothy Hart | ... | Ruth Morrison |
| Don Taylor | ... | Det. Jimmy Halloran |
| Frank Conroy | ... | Capt. Donahue |
| Ted de Corsia | ... | Willie Garzah aka Willie the Harmonica |
| House Jameson | ... | Dr. Stoneman |
| Anne Sargent | ... | Mrs. Halloran |
| Adelaide Klein | ... | Mrs. Paula Batory |
| Grover Burgess | ... | Mr. Batory |
| Tom Pedi | ... | Det. Perelli |
| Enid Markey | ... | Mrs. Edgar Hylton |
| Mark Hellinger | ... | Narrator (voice) |
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96 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Actor Nehemiah Persoff's debut.
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Continuity: When Muldoon and Halloran first question Ruth Morrison's mom, there are 4 or 5 78 RPM records on the couch she is standing behind. When she and Holloran sit down, the records are no where in sight.
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Quotes:
Muldoon:
No, the picnic is over, you've told your last lie. You're knee deep in stolen jewlery. You're involved the the Dexter Murder. You've been trying to obstruct justice all along the line. Now you're gonna tell me what I want to know or so help me if it's the last thing I do in this department, I'll get you twenty years. Now that's the truth Sonny Boy, and you know I'm not bluffing. Who's Henderson? Who's Henderson?
Frank Niles: Stoneman! It's Doctor Stoneman.
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Frank Niles: Stoneman! It's Doctor Stoneman.
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Featured in The Movie Orgy (1968)
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In New York, the model Jean Dexter is found dead in the bathtub of her apartment apparently after committing suicide. However, the coroner realizes that she was actually murdered with a simulation of suicide, and the experienced Homicide Lieutenant Detective Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) initiates his investigations with Detective Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) and his team, and the prime suspect becomes Jean's friend Frank Niles (Howard Duff), who he an alibi but tells many lies in his statement.
The director Jules Dassin from the masterpiece "Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes" and "Night and the City" presents "The Naked City" totally filmed in locations of New York City and with actors interacting with common people on the streets like in the Italian Neo-Realism. The introduction is unique, with the credits narrated by the producer Mark Hellinger like in a documentary, and I do not recall any other movie with this characteristic. The screenplay discloses a great detective story, very well acted with Barry Fitzgerald playing a cynical and smart lieutenant and Don Taylor an inexperienced and family man detective. In the conclusion, the narrator tells that this is one of the 8,000,000 stories of the naked city, in a time where New York City had only this population (against more than 20 million inhabitants of the present days). My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Cidade Nua" ("Naked City")