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The Naked City Overview:

The Naked City (1948) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Jules Dassin and produced by Mark Hellinger and Jules Buck.

The Naked City was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007.

Academy Awards 1948 --- Ceremony Number 21 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best CinematographyWilliam DanielsWon
Best Film EditingPaul WeatherwaxWon
Best WritingMalvin WaldNominated
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The Naked City BlogHub Articles:

Give Noir a Chance: The Naked City (1948)

By shadowsandsatin on Mar 20, 2023 From Shadows and Satin

I’ve had an idea for a new blog series for quite some time now, and I thought that today was a perfect day for my first entry. Over the decades, I’ve seen innumerable noirs – some that I frankly don’t even remember, many that I’ve loved, and a few that left me cold despite their acclaim fr... Read full article

ONE MOVIE, THREE QUOTES: The Naked City (1948)

By Carol Martinheira on Mar 12, 2022 From The Old Hollywood Garden

ONE MOVIE, THREE QUOTES: The Naked City (1948) On March 12, 2022 By CarolIn Uncategorized Ahh, the Screenplay Oscars. Has there ever been a more confusing Academy Award category? Starting with the very first ceremony in 1929, they have had many iterations, names an... Read full article

The Naked City (1948): One Out of Eight Million Stories

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 23, 2019 From 4 Star Films

The Naked City begins inauspiciously enough with a flyover of New York and an introduction by producer Mark Hellinger. It seems like we’ve seen this countless times before. It’s almost like a stock image. And yet in the case of this picture, it was really one of the forerunners of a move... Read full article

The Naked City (1948)

By Carol Martinheira on Aug 3, 2016 From The Old Hollywood Garden

The Naked City (1948) On August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized ‘Jean Dexter is dead. The answer must be somewhere down there.’, says our narrator, the film’s producer, Mark Hellinger. And he’s right. Down there, on the all too familiar streets o... Read full article

The Naked City (1948)

By Beatrice on Apr 3, 2015 From Flickers in Time

The Naked City Directed by Jules Dassin Written by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald 1948/USA Hellinger Productions/Universal International Pictures Repeat viewing/Netflix rental This film was ground-breaking in several ways.  Seventy years of the same tropes appearing on prime-time TV makes it see... Read full article

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The Naked City Quotes:

Willie Garza: Thought you were off the liquor. Liquor is bad. Weakens your character. How can a man like me trust a liar like you? I can't.
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The Naked City Facts
Shot in eighty-four days during the summer of 1947.
In the scene where Muldoon and Halloran are shown entering an apartment house on Park Avenue, the awning shows the address "478". The building is actually 480 Park Avenue, one of the residential buildings designed by noted architect Emory Roth.
Most of the street scenes were shot on location in New York without the public's knowledge. Photographer William H. Daniels and his uncredited assistant Roy Tripp filmed people on the streets using a hidden camera from the back of an old moving van. Occasionally, a fake newsstand with a hidden camera inside was also set up on the sidewalk to secretly film the actors. Director Jules Dassin hired a juggler to distract the crowds, and also hired a man to occasionally climb up on a light post and give a patriotic speech, while waving an American flag to get the crowd's attention.
Both Paul Ford and John Randolph were working on the New York stage in the hit drama "Command Decision" (which itself would be produced by MGM as a Clark Gable vehicle) when they appeared in this film, which was shot on location in the city.
Life Magazine wrote that this film was producer Mark Hellinger's "personal love letter to New York" and that he was present on every location in New York, checking details and supervising it.
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