Night and the City (1950)

Released: 1950-06-15 Duration: 1hr 35min

Genres: Drama Crime

Rating 7.5

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The inside story of London after dark.

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.

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Additional Info

Budget	$0.00
Revenue	$0.00
Original Language	en
Popularity	18.272

Directed By

Jules Dassin

Crew

Director
Jules Dassin

Screenplay
Jo Eisinger

Producer
Samuel G. Engel

Novel
Gerald Kersh

Director of Photography
Mutz Greenbaum

Executive Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck

Art Direction
C.P. Norman

Original Music Composer
Franz Waxman

Original Music Composer
Benjamin Frankel

Writer
Austin Dempster

Sound Recordist
Peter Handford

Editor
Sidney Stone

Writer
William E. Watts

Sound Recordist
Roger Heman Sr.

Editor
Nick DeMaggio

Makeup Artist
David Aylott

First Assistant Director
Anthony Hearne

Camera Operator
Hal Britten

Assistant Production Manager
Bert Pearl

Draughtsman
Ted Clements

Third Assistant Director
Jack N. Green

Focus Puller
Walter Lassally

Technical Advisor
Mike Mazurki

Draughtsman
George Beech

Sound Assistant
Hugh Strain

Casting Assistant
John Jones

Hairstylist
Barbara Ritchie

Sound Assistant
Kevin Sutton

Costume Design
Oleg Cassini

Casting
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Additional Director of Photography
Jo Jago

Still Photographer
Arthur Evans

Unit Manager
Percy Hermes

Assistant Director
George Mills

Third Assistant Director
Peter Mullins

Clapper Loader
David Oxenham

Costume Design
Margaret Furse

Orchestrator
Edward B. Powell

Publicist
Ernest Betts

Second Assistant Director
John Street

Orchestrator
Cyril J. Mockridge

Continuity
Peggy McClafferty

Sound
Charles Van der Goor

Clapper Loader
Eddie Earp

Wardrobe Supervisor
Ivy Baker

Wardrobe Master
Evelyn Gibbs

Casting
Weston Drury Jr.

Draughtsman
Peter Murton

Wardrobe Master
Arthur Newman

Hairstylist
Iris Tilley

Focus Puller
Godfrey A. Godar

Grip
A. Southall

Grip
Joe Vincent

Orchestrator
Bernard Mayers

Assistant Director
Percy Hermes

Producer's Assistant
R. E. Dearing

Music Director
Muir Mathieson

Orchestrator
Eric Rogers

Assistant Art Director
Peter Mullins

Camera Operator
Austin Dempster

Production Secretary
Noreen Hipwell

Assistant Makeup Artist
Eric Allwright

Production Manager
Ronald Kinnoch

Second Assistant Director
Douglas Hermes

Grip
V. Butler

Unit Publicist
Arthur Allighan

TOP CAST

Hamilton Keene

Charles, American Bartender (uncredited)

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