Yeah, I don't know why, but this one slipped through the cracks in the noir "canon" for years. I don't know if it was due to bad distribution and prints or if that was the result of the disinterest. Considering it was made by a number of major noir creators in the midst of a run of better-known films, it's been oddly forgotten.
I'm glad Criterion has brought some more attention to it, along with the other great Jules Dassin films they put out -- Naked City was a favorite of mine from early noir viewing (like Brute Force, in a bad, bootleg videotape copy), but I didn't know how great Thieves Highway and Night and the City were until I finally got to them in the Criterion editions.
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Date: 2007-04-25 04:19 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, I don't know why, but this one slipped through the cracks in the noir "canon" for years. I don't know if it was due to bad distribution and prints or if that was the result of the disinterest. Considering it was made by a number of major noir creators in the midst of a run of better-known films, it's been oddly forgotten.
I'm glad Criterion has brought some more attention to it, along with the other great Jules Dassin films they put out -- Naked City was a favorite of mine from early noir viewing (like Brute Force, in a bad, bootleg videotape copy), but I didn't know how great Thieves Highway and Night and the City were until I finally got to them in the Criterion editions.