February 2, 2010 (XX:4) Jules Dassin, NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950, 96 min) Directed by Jules Dassin Screenplay by Jo Eisinger Based on the novel by Gerald Kersh Produced by Samuel G. Engel. Original Music by Benjamin Frankel (British version), Franz Waxman (American version) Cinematography by Mutz Greenbaum (director of photography, as Max Greene) Film Editing by Nick DeMaggio and Sidney Stone Constant Nymph (1933), Hindle Wakes (1931), Amours viennoises (1931), Die Försterchristl (1931), Zwei Menschen (1930), Zwei Richard Widmark...Harry Fabian Welten (1930, Der Präsident (1928), Frauenraub in Marokko Gene Tierney...Mary Bristol (1928), Das goldene Kalb (1925), Das tanzende Herz (1916), and Googie Withers...Helen Nosseross Hampels Abenteuer (1915). Hugh Marlowe...Adam Dunn Francis L. Sullivan...Philip Nosseross RICHARD WIDMARK (December 26, 1914, Sunrise Township, Herbert Lom...Kristo Minnesota—March 24, 2008, Roxbury, Connecticut, from Stanislaus Zbyszko...Gregorius complications following a fall) appeared in 75 films and tv series, Mike Mazurki...The Strangler some of which were True Colors (1991), Against All Odds (1984), Charles Farrell...Mickey Beer National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982) The Swarm (1978), Ada Reeve...Molly the Flower Lady Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Murder on the Orient Express Ken Richmond...Nikolas of Athens (1974), "Madigan" (6 episodes, 1972-1973), Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Madigan (1968), Alvarez Kelly (1966), The Bedford JULES DASSIN (18 December 1911, Middletown, Connecticut, Incident (1965), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), How the West Was Won USA—31 March 2008, Athens, Greece, complications from flu) (1962), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Two Rode Together (1961), directed 25 films, including Circle of Two/Obsession (1980), The The Alamo (1960), Warlock (1959), The Law and Jake Wade Rehearsal (1974), Promise at Dawn (1970), 10:30 P.M. Summer (1958), Saint Joan (1957), Broken Lance (1954) Garden of Evil (1966), Topkapi (1964), Phaedra (1962), Pote tin Kyriaki/Never on (1954), Hell and High Water (1954), Take the High Ground! Sunday (1960), La legge/The Law (1959), Celui qui doit mourir/He (1953), Pickup on South Street (1953), Don't Bother to Knock Who Must Die (1957), Du rififi chez les hommes/Rififi (1955), Night (1952), Halls of Montezuma (1950), No Way Out (1950), Panic in and the City (1950), Thieves' Highway (1949), The Naked City the Streets (1950), Night and the City (1950), Slattery's Hurricane (1948), Brute Force (1947), The Canterville Ghost (1944), Nazi (1949), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), and Kiss of Death (1947). Agent (1942), The Tell-Tale Heart (1941). Nominated Oscar: Best Writing, Story and Screenplay—Written Directly for the Screen- GENE TIERNEY (November 19, 1920, Brooklyn, New York— Pote tin Kyriaki (1961); Nominated Oscar: Best Director- Pote tin November 6, 1991, Houston, Texas, of emphysema) appeared in 41 Kyriaki (1961). films and tv series, some of which were "Scruples" (1980), "The F.B.I." (1 episode, 1969), Toys in the Attic (1963), Advise & MUTZ GREENBAUM (Max Greene)( February 3, 1896, Berlin, Consent (1962), The Left Hand of God (1955), Black Widow (1954), Germany—July 1968, London, England) was the cinematographer The Egyptian (1954), The Mating Season (1951), Where the for 146 films and tv series, some of which were Heavens Above! Sidewalk Ends (1950), Night and the City (1950), Whirlpool (1949), (1963), A French Mistress (1960), I'm All Right Jack (1959), Lucky The Iron Curtain (1948), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Jim (1957), Trent's Last Case (1952), Night and the City (1950), So Razor's Edge (1946), Dragonwyck (1946), Leave Her to Heaven Evil My Love (1948), Wanted for Murder (1946), Squadron Leader (1945), A Bell for Adano (1945), Laura (1944), Heaven Can Wait X (1943), Thunder Rock (1942), They Flew Alone (1942), This (1943), The Shanghai Gesture (1941) , Sundown (1941), Belle Starr England (1941), Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937), The Dassin—NIGHT AND THE CITY—2 (1941), Tobacco Road (1941), and The Return of Frank James conscious of this, and of the daily problem of eating. And it was (1940). cold...it was always so cold.” Dassin was educated at Morris High School in the Bronx. HERBERT LOM (Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich It is clear that he was already interested in the theatre and show Schluderpacheru, September 11, 1917, Prague, Bohemia, Austria- business—a passion apparently inherited from his grandfather, who Hungary [now Czech Republic]) appeared in 112 films and tv dabbled in local productions while working as a village wigmaker series, some of which were Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage in Russia. Upon graduating he spent two years traveling through (2004), Masque of the Red Death (1991), The Pope Must Die Europe to study theatre while supporting himself with odd jobs. His (1991), River of Death (1989), Ten Little Indians (1989), Whoops “most beautiful memory” of this vast tour was “a King Lear heard Apocalypse (1986), King Solomon's Mines (1985), The Dead Zone in Yiddish in Moscow, from the mouth of Michoels, an actor who (1983), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Trail of the Pink Panther was almost a dwarf but who was thirty feet tall dramatically.” (1982), Hopscotch (1980), The Man with Bogart's Face (1980), The Returning to New York in 1936, he learned Yiddish in order to act Lady Vanishes (1979), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), The with the Yiddish theatre companies that flourished at the time. He Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), The Return of the Pink Panther also joined the Artef Players, a Jewish socialist collective, and (1975), Asylum (1972/I), Dorian Gray (1970), Doppelgänger appeared in their productions of The Good Soldier Schweik (1937) (1969), Villa Rides (1968), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (2 and Clinton Street (1939). In 1937 he played the lead in Revolt of episodes, 1967), Return from the Ashes (1965), "The Human the Beavers, a Marxist musical for children staged by the WPA Jungle"(26 episodes, 1963-1964), A Shot in the Dark (1964), The Federal Theater Project. For five summers during this period Dassin Phantom of the Opera (1962), El Cid (1961), Spartacus (1960), The worked as an entertainment director of a Jewish camp in the Roots of Heaven (1958), I Accuse! (1958), Fire Down Below Catskills. where, among other things, he engaged the young (1957), War and Peace (1956), The Ladykillers (1955), The Man campers in productions of Shakespeare. At this time he was briefly Who Watched Trains Go By (1952), Night and the City (1950), a member of the Communist party but, according to his own Portrait from Life (1948), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), The Dark account, left it in 1939. Tower (1943), Secret Mission (1942), The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), By 1940, Dassin was writing for Kate Smith’s radio show and Zena pod krízem (1937). and adapting literary classics for fifteen-minute radio broadcasts. His adaptation of Gogol’s story “the Overcoat” drew the attention MIKE MAZURKI (Mikhail Mazurwski, December 25, 1907, of producer Martin Gabel, who then gave him his first assignment Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ternopil, Ukraine]— as a director with Medicine Show, a plea for socialized medicine December 9, 1990, Glendale, California) appeared in 152 films and staged as a “living newspaper.” John Mason Brown wrote that the tv series, some of which were Mob Boss (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), piece was “directed with uncommon felicity,” and although it was Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Doin' Time (1985), "Fantasy not particularly successful, it brought Dassin to the attention of Island" (2 episodes, 1983), Alligator (1980), "The Rockford Files" RKO talent scouts. (1 episode, 1978), "Charlie's Angels" (1 episode, 1978), Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), "Kung Fu" .... Hannibal (1 episode, 1973), "Gunsmoke" (1 episode, 1971), "Bonanza" (2 episodes, 1968-1969), "Gilligan's Island" (1 episode, 1966), Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965), "Perry Mason" (2 episodes, 1963-1964), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Donovan's Reef (1963), "The Untouchables" (2 episodes, 1959- 1962), "Have Gun—Will Travel" (3 episodes, 1958-1962), "M Squad" (1 episode, 1959), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Kismet (1955), New York Confidential (1955), The Egyptian (1954), Night and the City (1950), Samson and Delilah (1949), The Noose Hangs High (1948), I Walk Alone (1948), Sinbad the Sailor (1947), Dick Tracy (1945), Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945), Murder, My Sweet (1944), The Canterville Ghost (1944), Mission to Moscow (1943), The Moon and Sixpence (1942), The Shanghai Gesture (1941), Black Fury (1935), and Belle of the Nineties (1934). Jules Dassin, from World Film Directors, Vol. I. Ed. John Wakeman. H.W. Wilson Company, NY, 1987. American director, scenarist, and producer, Jules Dassin was born Julius Dassin in Middletown, Connecticut. He was one of the eight children of Samuel Dassin, a barber, and the former Berthe Vogel, In 1941 he was invited to Hollywood by RKO as an both Russian Jewish immigrants. The family moved to New York apprentice director. For six months he did nothing but “sit and City when Dassin was still a small child and settled in Harlem. “We observe” the shooting of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith were so poor it was ridiculous,” he said. “At that time Harlem and Garson Kanin’s They Knew What They Wanted, receiving $200 wasn’t entirely black. There were about three or four minority a week for the privilege. Not surprisingly, he learned most from groups living in the ghetto, at each other’s throats all the time: Hitchcock, though he felt greater rapport with Kanin. Hitchcock Jewish, Negro, Irish, and some Italian, divided among themselves liked “to amuse himself at the expense of innocents. He would and taking out their wrath and their poverty upon each other.