Night and the City

Night and the City

1950 · 1 hr 36 min · Approved

Crime, Film-Noir, Sport

Directors

Jules Dassin

Actors

  • Richard Widmark
  • Gene Tierney
  • Googie Withers

Credits: 6

Summary

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

More about this movie

Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be his ticket to financial independence. As Fabian attempts to con everyone around him to get his scheme to work, he of course only ends up conning himself. This is an interesting tale of blind ambition, self-deception, broken dreams, and how a man who always thinks he's ahead of the game ends up tripping himself very badly.

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