Union City (film)

Union City is a 1980 American crime mystery film starring Dennis Lipscomb, Deborah Harry and Everett McGill. It was based on the short story Union City The Corpse Next Door by Cornell Woolrich and released by The Tuxedo Company and Columbia Pictures on May 17, 1980.

The film costarred Deborah Harry of Blondie fame. At the time she was cast as the band were relatively unknown in their home country but this changed when Heart of Glass hitin the US midway through filming. As director Marcus Reichert would later recall this considerably complicated filming. She was forbidden to sing in the film or on its soundtrack for contractual reasons but her experiences reputedly led to the recording of the Blondie song Union City Blue. The film also featured a small role for Pat Benatar, a friend of Harrys also soon to make a mainstream breakthrough in the pop charts. Harrys partner and fellow Blondie member Chris Stein performed the films original score.The short story written by Woolrich had been set in the 1930s but Reichert relocated it to 1953 as he felt the period fitted the material better. He wrote the screenplay in eight days. The movie was filmed on location on 27th Street off Summit Avenue in Union City, filming also on 48th Street and Hudson Ave, in March 1979. The film was cut by distributors Movielab to get a PG rating the excised material is believed by Reichert to have been destroyed when the building it was housed in was sold to Arriflex. The film has been released on DVD by Tartan Video and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. ........

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