Jules Dassin, one of Hollywood's most influential exiles and the man behind the legendary Rififi—that often-imitated, rarely-matched precursor to the modern "heist" film—shot his police thriller, The Naked City in 1948, entirely "on location" in New York City. The resulting kaleidoscope of crime—in which the city plays as prominent a role as any actor—follows Detective Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) as he investigates the murder of young Jean Dexter, a ex-model found dead on "a hot night working its way towards dawn."
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