Rent Dark City (1950)
3.4 of 5 from 68 ratings
1h 30min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Once a decorated war hero, Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) now leads a group of small-time card sharks who know a sucker when they see one. They cheat their latest mark, Arthur (Don DeFore) out of $5000 at the poker table; but when Arthur hangs himself in despair, his unstable, hulking older brother (Mike Mazurki) seeks violent revenge on the grifter's responsible. As the bodies pile up, Danny and his lover, nightclub singer Fran (Lizabeth Scott), flee to Las Vegas...but Danny is about to learn he can't hide from the consequences of his actions.
- Actors:
- Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don Defore, Jack Webb, Ed Begley, Harry Morgan, Walter Sande, Mark Keuning, Mike Mazurki, Fred Aldrich, John Bishop, John Breen, Walter Burke, Hamilton Camp, Jack Carroll, Bill Cartledge, Jack Chefe, Sally Corner
- Directors:
- William Dieterle
- Producers:
- Hal B. Wallis
- Writers:
- John Meredyth Lucas, Lawrence B. Marcus, Ketti Frings
- Aka:
- No Escape
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Cinema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2, A Brief History of Film...
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 02/09/2019
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0, English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary by Writer, Historian and Film Programmer Alan K. Rode
- Newly Filmed Appreciation by Critic Philip Kemp
- Theatrical Trailer
- Image Gallery
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Reviews (1) of Dark City
A Certain Shade of noir - Dark City review by CH
After an opening which is not as crisp as the poker playing of many a noir, this gathers pace as Charlton Heston is among those sought by the police and the venegeful near-invisible and certainly psychotic brother of the man that gang so rooked at the table that he killed himself. Not so much a suspenseful narrative, Dark City is a series of tableaux, often cutting to the music of a cabaret club which, if enjoyable in itself ("That Old Black Magic") breaks the mood. For all this, it is well worth watching for Heston in a début which is far from the epics in which he was so often to fetch up.. How did Dark City come to have an ending which, in its setting and lighting beside an aeroplane, is so close to that of Casablanca?
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