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Jules Dassin Versus Mark Hellinger and ‘The Naked City’

Jules Dassin Versus Mark Hellinger and ‘The Naked City’

Producer Mark Hellinger may have committed the biggest crime in the filming of Jules Dassin's classic film-noir, 'The Naked City'.

A Little Ominous Noir Music Makes Jules Dassin’s ‘Rifif’ Nearly Perfect

A Little Ominous Noir Music Makes Jules Dassin’s ‘Rifif’ Nearly Perfect

This benchmark of the heist genre shows that for the criminal, elegance and brutality go hand-in-hand, never more vividly depicted than in this tightly structured ode to Paris.

Brute Force (1947)

The Naked City (1948)