The naked city

Resource Information

The work The naked city represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The naked city

Statement of responsibility

Universal Pictures Company ; a Mark Hellinger production ; a Universal-International release ; screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, from a story by Mr. Wald ; produced and narrated by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Jules Dassin

Title variation

• Jules Dassin's The Naked City
• Jules Dassin's Naked City

Contributor

• Universal Pictures Company
• Klein, Adelaide, 1901-1983
• Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985
• Markey, Enid, 1890-1981
• De Corsia, Ted
• Pedi, Tom, 1913-1996
• Polan, Dana B., 1953-
• Sanders, James, 1955-
• Sante, Lucy
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Sargent, Anne
• Taylor, Don, 1920-1998
• Wald, Malvin
• Weatherwax, Paul
• Image Entertainment (Firm)
• Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008
• Duff, Howard, 1913-1990
• Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961
• Hart, Dorothy, 1922-2004
• Daniels, William, 1900-1970
• Conroy, Frank, 1890-1964
• Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947
• Burgess, Grover, 1892?-1948
• Universal-International (Firm)
• Jameson, House

Actor

• Duff, Howard, 1913-1990
• Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961
• Markey, Enid, 1890-1981
• De Corsia, Ted
• Taylor, Don, 1920-1998
• Sargent, Anne
• Klein, Adelaide, 1901-1983
• Pedi, Tom, 1913-1996
• Hart, Dorothy, 1922-2004
• Burgess, Grover, 1892?-1948
• Jameson, House

Author

• Wald, Malvin
• Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947

Commentator

• Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008
• Wald, Malvin

Director

• Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008

Director of photography

• Daniels, William, 1900-1970

Editor of moving image work

• Weatherwax, Paul

Film distributor

• Image Entertainment (Firm)

Narrator

• Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947

Producer

• Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947

Production company

• Universal Pictures Company
• Universal-International (Firm)

Publisher

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985
• Wald, Malvin

Writer of added commentary

• Sante, Lucy

Subject

• Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• New York (N.Y.) -- Drama
• Murder victims -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Film noir
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Detective and mystery films
• Criminal investigation -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Burglars -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama

Genre

• Detective and mystery films
• Film noir
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Drama

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

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

Member of

• Criterion collection, 380

Awards note

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.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, William Daniels ; editor, Paul Weatherwax ; art director, John F. DeCuir ; original music, Miklós Rózsa, Frank Skinner

Dewey number

791.4372

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Language note

Optional English SDH for the hearing impaired

LC call number

PN1995.9.D4

LC item number

J8547 2007

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

96

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

380

Target audience

general

Technique

live action