The naked city [DVD video]

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.

General Note:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

Performers:

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.

Contents:

Special features: Optional audio feature commentary with screenwriter Malvin Wald -- Interview with NYU film studies professor Dana Polan (ca. 28 min.) -- Interview with architect James Sanders, who discusses The Naked City's depiction of New York City in the 1940s (ca. 26 min.) -- Jules Dassin at LACMA (ca. 41 min. ; appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, after a screening of his film Rififi) -- Stills gallery.

Technical Details:

DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital mono.

Subject Term:

Murder victims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Criminal investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Burglars -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Detective and mystery films.

Film noir.