Director: Jules Dassin

Writer: Jo Eisinger

From novel: Night and the City by Gerald Kersh

Music: Franz Waxman

Producer: Samuel G. Engel

Keywords: Crime, Film Noir, Wrestling

An ambitious conman in London concocts a scheme to promote Greco-Roman wrestling, exploiting the fame of retired superstar wrestler Gregorius. Gritty film noir of nearly the highest caliber, feeling sometimes like a 1930s gangster flick. Dassin's final American film before he was blacklisted based on testimony before HUAC by fellow director Edward Dmytryk. Remade as Night and the City (1992).

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert Lom	Actor	11-Sep-1917	27-Sep-2012	Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Hugh Marlowe	Actor	30-Jan-1911	2-May-1982	Jim Matthews on Another World
Mike Mazurki	Actor	25-Dec-1907	9-Dec-1990	Murder, My Sweet
Francis L. Sullivan	Actor	6-Jan-1903	19-Nov-1956	Great Expectations
Gene Tierney	Actor	19-Nov-1920	6-Nov-1991	Laura
Richard Widmark	Actor	26-Dec-1914	24-Mar-2008	Kiss of Death
Googie Withers	Actor	12-Mar-1917	15-Jul-2011	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

CAST

Richard Widmark	...   Harry Fabian
Gene Tierney	...   Mary Bristol
with
Googie Withers	...   Helen Nosseros
Hugh Marlowe	...   Adam Dunn
Francis L. Sullivan	...   Phil Nosseros
Herbert Lom	...   Kristo
Stanislaus Zbyszko	...   Gregorius
Mike Mazurki	...   Strangler
Charles Farrell	...   Beer
Ada Reeve	...   Molly
Ken Richmond	...   Nikolas

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