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The film follows two detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran who are responsible for investigating the death of a attractive model Jean Dexter. She is murdered in her apartment and they suspect the murder wants to rob her property.
A rather overrated police-procedure thriller which has gained its seminal status simply by its accent on ordinariness and by its adherence to the ideal of shooting on location.
A definite parochial fascination is liberally assured all the way and the seams in a none-too-good whodunnit are rather cleverly concealed.
March 25, 2006
EmanuelLevy.Com
One of Jules Dassin's best features is a quintessential film noir, distinguished by its on-location shooting and Daniels' sharp imagery, which deservedly won the Oscar
The on-location photography and final minutes on the streets and bridge are impressive, but this noir is more memorable for what it inspired to follow it than in its slow talky self.
What The Naked City does is paint an indelible vision of both the New York City that never sleeps and of the human life and industry that teems within it
March 09, 2007
The Skinny
If this is noir, it's the most brightly lit, least antisocial noir ever.