Movie
Night and the City
Overview
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Details
- Release date
- 1950-06-15
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Widmark as Harry Fabian
- Francis L. Sullivan as Philip Nosseross
- Gene Tierney as Mary Bristol
- Googie Withers as Helen Nosseross
- Stanislaus Zbyszko as Gregorius
- Herbert Lom as Kristo
- Hugh Marlowe as Adam Dunn
- Mike Mazurki as The Strangler
- Charles Farrell as Mickey Beer
- Ada Reeve as Molly
- Ken Richmond as Nikolas
- Alan Tilvern as Beggar (uncredited)
Crew
- Jules Dassin - Director
- Austin Dempster - Writer
- William E. Watts - Writer
- Jo Eisinger - Screenplay
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