Jules Dassin brought together an impressive group of performers for this suspenseful story. Richard Widmark, in good form ("Fabian"), portrays a somewhat disreputable character operating in London who runs into "Gregorius," an enormous but older wrestling champion (Stanislaus Zbyszko), and they devise a scheme with the potential to make them both very rich. Predictably, things don’t go according to plan, and soon his…

Night and the City, directed by Jules Dassin and adapted by Jo Eisinger from a novel by Gerald Kersh, features Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan, Mike Mazurki & Stanislaus Zbyszko in its cast. The film's score is composed by Franz Waxman, with Max Greene as the cinematographer; it was filmed on location in London, England. Harry Fabian (Widmark) is a dreamer and small-…