Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Jules Dassin's Naked City [videorecording] / Universal Pictures Company ; produced by Mark Hellinger ; story by Malvin Wald ; screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald ; directed by Jules Dassin.

Publisher, Date:

New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

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.

Series:

The Criterion Collection ; 380.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 380.

Subjects:

Murder victims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Detectives -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Criminal investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Burglars -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Feature films.

Detective and mystery films.

Film noir.

Films for hard of hearing people

New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947.

Wald, Malvin.

Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985.

Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008.

Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961.

Duff, Howard. 1913-1990

Hart, Dorothy, 1922-2004.

Taylor, Don, 1920-1998.

Conroy, Frank, 1890-1964.

De Corsia, Ted.

Jameson, House.

Sargent, Anne.

Klein, Adelaide, 1901-1983.

Burgess, Grover, 1892?-1948.

Pedi, Tom, 1913-1996.

Markey, Enid, 1890-1981.

Daniels, William, 1895-1970.

Weatherwax, Paul.

Universal Pictures Company.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Image Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

Naked City.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

Booklet: a new essay by Luc Sante and production notes from producer Mark Hellinger to Dassin.

Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by Naked City screenwriter Malvin Wald; a new video interview with NYU film professor Dana Polan; an analysis of the film's New York locations by "Celluloid Skyline" author James Sanders; footage of Jules Dassin from his 2004 appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; theatrical trailer; stills gallery; booklet.

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

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.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Academy Awards, USA, 1949: Oscar - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (William H. Daniels) ; Best Film Editing (Paul Weatherwax).

ISBN:

1934121312

9781934121313

Publisher Number:

CC1687D

Other Number:

78785909

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

262512

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Naked Ci

Medium:

[videorecording]