The Naked City Page #9

Synopsis: Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. Filmed entirely on location in New York City.
Director(s): Jules Dassin
Production: Universal Pictures
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
1948
96 min
612 Views


Car 702, Fifth Precinct,

509, Seventh Precinct and 110 will respond.

Use caution.

Emergency service truck responding.

Attention all cars. Particular attention,

cars in Lower Manhattan.

I n connection with the signal 32, block off

and surround both sides of the street.

Be on the lookout for two men.

One, Detective James Halloran,

26 years old.

Two, William Garzah, wanted in connection

with a homicide in the 20th Precinct.

Proceed cautiously.

Garzah may be armed.

You've lost him, Halloran, haven't you?

Well, he's a tough cookie.

You better follow routine now.

Report in.

The cops are on a manhunt, Garzah.

You need a plan.

You've got to get out ofthis neighborhood.

Stop and look at a tie.

Maybe you're being shadowed.

Lady, ever see a man, looks like this?

You gotta get out

of this neighborhood, Garzah.

That's it. A crowded bus

is safer for you than a taxi.

Tough luck.

But you can't wait for the next one.

How about the subway?

Wait a minute, fella.

I'll tell you when.

Okay.

Take it easy, Garzah.

Don't run.

Don't call attention to yourself.

- Dan, Garzah's the guy.

- I know. I know. Where is he?

I don't know. I lost him.

But he's around here someplace.

It's only an accident, Garzah. Pass it off.

Don't lose your head.

Don't losey our head!

Now remember, boys,

we're in a crowded neighborhood.

Now here's what we do -

It's Garzah!

Dan, it's Garzah! Halloran's after him!

They're running towards the Brooklyn end.

You stay with Halloran!

Don't shoot unless you have to!

You two stay with him.

Get radio. Have them

send a car from the Brooklyn end.

You boys, get in.

You two, cover this end.

That tower up ahead on the left -

you boys will get out there.

- Watch for Garzah from that angle.

- Right.

Hold it! Hold it, boys!

Come on down.

We want no dead heroes.

There's no place he can go to now.

Garzah, come on down!

You've got a chance

if you come down now!

I'm tellin' my men not to shoot!

All right, Garzah,

we give you 100% in acrobatics!

Now will you come down under your own power,

or do you want a little persuasion?

What do you say, Garzah?

It's 1:
00 in the morning again.

And this is the city.

And these are the lights...

that a child, born to the name of Batory,

hungered for.

Her passion has been played out now.

Her name, her face, her history...

were worth five cents a day

for six days.

Tomorrow a new case

will hit the headlines.

Yet some will remember Jean Dexter.

She won't be entirely forgotten.

Not entirely.

Not altogether.

There are eight million stories

in the naked city.

This has been one ofthem.

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Albert Maltz

Albert Maltz was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA. more…

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