20th Century-Fox Dynamo (April 1950)

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And The Night For the first time in the history of screen en- tertainment, this company is dramatizing the night fife of London in a thrill-congested melodrama entitled "Night And The City" entirely produced in the English metropolis, "Night And The City” has been given a semi-documentary treatment and is in the tempo and mood of "Naked City”. Produced by Samuel G. Engel and directed by Jules Dassin who, incidentally, megaphoned "Naked City”, "Night And The City” exposes the inter- national underworld, whose escapades at European playgrounds of the wealthy have made front-page headlines. Actually, this microscopic dramatization is a hard-hitting, suspenseful story of a London taut for a night club, his women and his shady acquaintances. Jo Eisinger wrote the screenplay from Gerald Kersch’s novel. The screenplay co-stars Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe and Francis L. Sullivan. Widmark plays Harry Fabian, the glib tout for the Silver Fox night- club, owned by Francis L. Sullivah. Harry is full of wild schemes he is convinced will make him "big time”. Most patient and sympathetic listener to his never-ending dreams of fortune is Mary (Gene Tierney), a dance hostess at the Silver Fox. in love with her is an altruistic sculptor, Adam Dunn, portrayed by Marlowe. While the latter patiently waits, with a protective eye on Mary, the night-club hanger-on is having an affair with the proprietor's wife (Googie Withers), who keeps him in funds. The good-for-nothing finally hits on an idea and becomes involved in a crooked wrestling deal. Meantime, he has wrecked several homes, double- crossed everyone who has in any way befriended him, including Mary. How he pays for his misdeeds and how the girl finds true love add up to a sens- ational climax. The city of London—at night—furnishes "Night And The City” with a fascinating back- drop, for all of these sequences were actually filmed between 11 o’clock in the evening through 5 o’clock in the morning. It is a dramaof the seamy side of London—its playboys andplaygirls and the men who prey on them and on each other. It is a new slant on the triple-cross, and on a man who was as merciless with women as he was in cheating men deceived by his cfreams. It exposes dishonest wrestling. Others in the cast include Stanley Zbyszko, former world’s heavyweight wrestling champion; Herbert Lorn, Mike Mazurki, Charles Farrell, Ken Richmond, Ada Reeve, Maureen Delaney and James llayter. At the top of this page is a closeiv of Hugh Marlowe who did so well in "Come To The Stable” and "12 O’clock High”, and Gene Tierney. Right, Widmark is pictured trying to escape from a wrest- ling promoter whom he has double-crossed. Below, Francis L. Sullivan as he tells his wife, Googie Withers, that he knows o F her affair with Widmark.