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Director:
Writers:
Jo Eisinger (screenplay)
Gerald Kersh (novel)
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Release Date:
April 1950 (UK) more
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Plot:
Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day... more | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
DVD review: Film Noir Classics
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 26 November 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)

Actor Widmark Dies
 (From WENN. 26 March 2008, 12:11 PM, PDT)

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like a rat in a trap of his own creation more (51 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Richard Widmark ... Harry Fabian

Gene Tierney ... Mary Bristol
Googie Withers ... Helen Nosseross
Hugh Marlowe ... Adam Dunn
Francis L. Sullivan ... Philip Nosseross

Herbert Lom ... Kristo
Stanislaus Zbyszko ... Gregorius
Mike Mazurki ... The Strangler
Charles Farrell ... Mickey Beer
Ada Reeve ... Molly the Flower Lady
Ken Richmond ... Nikolas of Athens (as Ken. Richmond)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Adelaide Hall ... Singer (scenes deleted)
Eliot Makeham ... Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
Betty Marsden ... Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
101 min | USA:96 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Jules Dassin has stated that he did read the novel "Night and the City" until after the film was completed. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Philip is meeting with Harry, and holding Kristo's business card, during a medium shot, Philip is holding the card with one hand, then in an immediately following close-up shot, he is holding the card with two hands, then in the immediately following medium shot, he is again holding it in one hand again. more
Quotes:
Googin the Forger: If you ain't got socks you can't pull 'em up, can you? more
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Featured in The Savages (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Don't Fence Me In more

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31 out of 35 people found the following comment useful.
like a rat in a trap of his own creation, 25 February 2004
Author: bill engleson from British Columbia

Every where Richard Widmark's loser character Harry Fabian turns in this film he finds golden opportunities smothered in bad timing. Widmark utilizes a variation of that smarmy, snickering sinister giggle-chuckle that was memorialized in Kiss of Death.It serves the actor well in this film in its toned-down form but offers up a sort of pathetic body language for Fabian, the character. It may be that this American ex-patriot character is just way out of his depth. His hucksterism is not much appreciated by many of his acquaintances in this seedy London underworld. If Harry Fabian would simply accept that he is destined to be a 3rd rate shill and stooge,he might have fund some small pleasures. However, his mind is a shade too quick and his ambition too pumped. He's a user with not a shread of remorse about stepping on others, ripping them off, keeping one tiny step ahead of exposure. This is a superb film, squalid and sinister in its portrayal of greed, corruption and betrayal.

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