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Night and the City

Ripper......: VH-PROD         Length.........: 95 MiN
Source......: DVD             Aspect Ratio...: 1.33:1
Type........: XviD            Resolution.....: 512x384
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Rars........: 50x15MB         Video Bitrate..: 920 kb/s AVG
Video Framerate: 23.976
VH-PROD Rls.: 02/02/05        Audio Bitrate..: 73 kb/s
DVD Release.: 02/01/05        Audio Language.: English
Theater Date: 04/01/50        Stream Type....: [x]Mp3 [ ]Ac3
Channels.......: [ ]Stereo
IMDB Rating.: 7.8/10                           [x]Mono
IMDB Votes..: 312
Genre.......: [ ] Action      Subtitles......: [x] English
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Documentary

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042788/

P L O T

Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) 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.

C A S T

Richard Widmark ....  Harry Fabian
Gene Tierney ....  Mary Bristol
Googie Withers ....  Helen Nosseross
Hugh Marlowe ....  Adam Dunne
Francis L. Sullivan ....  Phil Nosseross, Silver Fox
Club
Herbert Lom ....  Kristo
Stanislaus Zbyszko ....  Gregorius the Great
Mike Mazurki ....  The Strangler
Charles Farrell ....  Mickey Beer
Ada Reeve ....  Molly the Flower Lady

R E L E A S E  N O T E S

An alternate British version exists that includes scenes
deleted in the American version, different title credits,
a different opening scene with Widmark and Tierney, and a
completely different score composed by Benjamin Frankel.
The Criterion Collection DVD contains a comparison of the
two scores recorded for the British and American releases
of the Film.