Naked City
2007
DVD
Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people 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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781934121313
- 1934121312
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
- monochrome
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: PG.
Other Title:
- At the head of title on container: Jules Dassin's [DVD]
- Naked City (Motion picture : 1948)
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
- Booklet: a new essay by Luc Sante and production notes from producer Mark Hellinger to Dassin.
- Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by Naked City screenwriter Malvin Wald; a new video interview with NYU film professor Dana Polan; an analysis of the film's New York locations by "Celluloid Skyline" author James Sanders; footage of Jules Dassin from his 2004 appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; theatrical trailer; stills gallery; booklet.
- Cinematography, William Daniels ; editor, Paul Weatherwax ; art director, John F. DeCuir ; original music, Miklós Rózsa, Frank Skinner.
- Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia, House Jameson, Anne Sargent, Adelaide Klein, Grover Burgess, Tom Pedi, Enid Markey.
- DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.
- For private home use only.
- Academy Awards, USA, 1949: Oscar - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (William H. Daniels) ; Best Film Editing (Paul Weatherwax).
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC1687D
- CC1687D
Control Number: 523518
UPC: 715515022927
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, [2007]Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 380
- Criterion collection ; 380.
Subjects:
- Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- Burglars -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- Criminal investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Murder victims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Burgess, Grover, 1892?-1948.
- Conroy, Frank, 1890-1964.
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Daniels, William H. (William Hunter), 1956-
- Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008.
- De Corsia, Ted.
- Duff, Howard, 1913-1990.
- Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961.
- Hart, Dorothy, 1922-2004.
- Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947.
- Jameson, House.
- Klein, Adelaide, 1901-1983.
- Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985.
- Markey, Enid, 1890-1981.
- Pedi, Tom, 1913-1996.
- Sargent, Anne.
- Taylor, Don, 1920-1998.
- Universal Pictures Company.
- Wald, Malvin.
- Weatherwax, Paul.