1954
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City That Never Sleeps: Directed by John H. Auer. With Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold. Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- John H. Auer
- 1953-06-12
The City That Never Sleeps: Directed by J. Alan Carr. With Melissa Anschutz, Randi M. Carter, Mary Alexandra Hunter, Adam Palmer. A woman struggles to survive an outbreak of insomnia when insomnia becomes an infectious disease.
- J. Alan Carr
- 2 min
June 12, 1953. ( 1953-06-12) Running time. 90 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. City That Never Sleeps is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by John H. Auer and starring Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold, Chill Wills, Marie Windsor, and Paula Raymond, with cinematography by John L. Russell.
Gig Young, Marie Windsor, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold, Wally Cassell, Chill Wills, Otto Hulett, Tom Poston. J ohn H. Auer’s City That Never Sleeps is an oddly uneven film that still enthralls the viewer like a pinball ricocheting through a landscape of established noir ingredients. Set in Chicago, despite the title’s ...
Amidst the perpetual craze for realism that characterized noir of the 1950s, "City That Never Sleeps" marks a pleasant return to the oneiric - one long night in Chicago, dark back lots suffused with mist, beleaguered souls stuck in situations they imaged be transitional, with dreams now hidden beneath a subfusc veil of unattainability - it's the melancholic night with its concomitant languor, the night that refuses to leave you alone, the night that structures itself like an unsolvable riddle.
Sep 10, 2012 · Routinely the film assembles its angst-racked characters: the cop tempted into dishonesty for love of a stripper, the ageing attorney with a bored young wife, the killer who dotes on his pet ...
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