The bleakest form of the film noir genre involves desperation, and that’s something that’s written all over the face of poor Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) in Night and the City. An expatriate who’s always looking for the next “get-rich-quick scheme,” as his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney) calls it, Harry has big dreams. “I wanna be somebody,” he says.-SceneStealers.com

“the rare masterpiece that earns the appellation not by announcing its grand intentions but by following them through with sublime confidence and precision”-FilmCritic