Cry of the City

Cry of the City is a 1948 blackandwhite film noir directed by Robert Siodmak based on the novel by Henry Edward Helseth, The Chair for Martin Rome. Veteran film noirwriter Ben Hecht worked on the films script, but is not credited. The film was shot partly on location in New York City.

With the help of a trusty Walter Baldwin, he escapes from the prison ward, afraid that the lawyer will try to frame Teena and himself. He is pursued by an old adversary, police lieutenant Candella Victor Mature, who grew up in his neighborhood and knows his family. Rome, feverish from his bullet wounds, receives help from his brother Tony, who worships him, and an old girlfriend Brenda Shelley Winters. Meanwhile, Candella and his partner Fred Clark, track him down through the streets of New York. He locates the female accomplice of the real jewel thiefmurderer, a strongly built masseuse named Rose Givens Hope Emerson. He tricks her and she is apprehended by the police. In the struggle she shoots at Rome, wounding Candella.Candella, shot in the shoulder, flees the hospital in his obsessive pursuit of Rome, ultimately tracking him down and killing him. Just before that happens, Tony refuses his brothers request that he steal their parents savings, in a final break with his brothers criminality. The film describes the odd relationship between these two men, their seeming bond as the pursuit ends in death for Rome. ........

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