The Naked City

The Naked City 1948 is a blackandwhite policierstyle film noir, directed by Jules Dassin. Based on a story by Malvin Wald, the film depicts the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, to find the girls killer. The movie, shot partially in documentary style, was filmed on location on the streets of New York City and features landmarks such as the Williamsburg Bridge, the Whitehall Building, and an apartment building on West 83rd Street in Manhattan as the scene of the murder.

In the late hours of a hot New York summer night, a pair of men subdue and kill Jean Dexter, an exmodel, by knocking her out with chloroform and drowning her in her bathtub. When one of the murderers, consciencestricken, gets drunk, the other kills him, then lifts his body into the air and throws it into the East River.Homicide Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon Barry Fitzgerald and his young associate, Jimmy Halloran Don Taylor, are assigned to Jeans case, which the medical examination has determined was murder, not an accident. Muldoon has been a homicide cop foryears Halloran for three months. At the scene, the police interrogate Martha Swenson Virginia Mullen, Jeans housekeeper, about Jeans friends, and she tells them about a Mr. Henderson. They also discover a bottle of sleeping pills and her address book. Halloran questions the doctor who prescribed the pills, Lawrence Stoneman House Jameson, and Ruth Morrison Dorothy Hart, another model. Back at the police station, Muldoon questions Frank Niles Howard Duff, who lies about everything, claiming only a business relationship with Jean and denying knowing Ruth, to whom he is engaged. The police quickly discover the truth behind many of his lies. Later, Muldoon deduces from the bruises on Jeans neck that she was killed by at least two men. ........

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