- Night and the City
8/9/23 (Wed)
Jules Dassin’s 1950 film does for postwar London what his The Naked City three years earlier did for postwar New York. I learned afterwards that there are two versions of this film: one edited for the UK and Commonwealth, and the other for the US and the rest of the world. Neither was overseen by the director, who was kept away from the Commie-hating authorities in the US due to his liberal past, but he later expressed a preference for this one, the US version. The UK version reportedly treats the slimy protagonist more sympathetically and offers a more positive ending, making me glad I watched this one instead.
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