Tuesday | November 2, 1999 6:30 pm

The Naked City

Screening on Film

Directed by Jules Dassin.
With Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Howard Duff.
US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 96 min.

While this highly influential neorealist thriller, shot on location in New York’s teeming streets, claimed to be giving an impression of city life, its real mission was to tell an ordinary murder tale through an accumulation of detail and humor. The narrator’s last words have become a widely quoted urban cliché: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."