Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Naked City. The late Mark Bellinger's big, bright portrait of New York, with Barry Fitzgerald and the homicide squad in the foreground (TIME, March 22).
"Naked City" is without doubt the most successful of the pseudo-documentary crime films that have appeared in the last few years. As the magazine blurbs have emphasized, the picture was made in New York at the places where the events supposedly happened, and the effect of taking the murders...
The excellence of "Naked City" lies not in the enormity or the intrinsic bloodiness of the crimes, but in the adroit juxtaposition of familiar surroundings with unusual events. Of course it is an escape picture, in which the audience is allowed an exciting peep behind a city's facade of...
Naked City (Mark Bellinger; Universal-International)
The Naked City. The late Mark Hellinger's big, bright portrait of New York, with Barry Fitzgerald and the homicide squad in the foreground (TIME, March 22).