Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters 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. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. Filmed entirely on location in New York Ci... (Full plot summary below)
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Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters 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. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. Filmed entirely on location in New York City.
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| Entertainment WeeklySteve SimelsNearly 50 years later, The Naked City‘s Oscar-winning cinematography and editing still have resonance. |
| Filmcritic.comJake EukerWhat The Naked City does is paint an indelible vision of both the New York City that never sleeps and of the human life and industry that teems within it |
| The Observer (UK)Philip FrenchBoth a landmark and some sort of masterpiece. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumA first-rate police thriller (1948) directed by Jules Dassin when he was still in his prime and before he was blacklisted, shot memorably in New York locations. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinThroughout, despite its omniscient, stark melodrama, there has been no sight lost of an element of humor. Barry Fitzgerald, as the film’s focal point, in playing the police lieutenant of the homicide squad, strides through the role with tongue in cheek, with Don Taylor as his young detective aide. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinPerhaps the best thing about Naked City is that it does justice to that source material. At times, it rivals Weegee's best work in its harsh, unsentimental portrayal of New York as a city with a dark side the size of the Hudson River. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThroughout, despite its omniscient, stark melodrama, there has been no sight lost of an element of humor. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitThe on-location photography and final minutes on the streets and bridge are impressive, but this noir is more memorable for what it inspired to follow it than in its slow talky self. |
| The SkinnyMichelle DevereauxIf this is noir, it's the most brightly lit, least antisocial noir ever. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostOutstanding mystery with brilliant location photography in New York City. |
