Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

grantss Decent, though fairly conventional, murder drama.A woman is murdered in her New York apartment. Detective Lt Dan Muldoon and his men from the Homicide Squad are on the case...Interesting, in that all the scenes were shot on actual New York locations - nothing was shot in a studio. Unfortunately, this self- proclaimed (by the narrator/producer) novelty is about all that is innovative about the movie. Plot is a fairly conventional, investigation-based, whodunnit. There are some intrigues along the way, but nothing you can't see from a distance away. No great twists at all.If anything, this is a movie about how police detectives do their jobs, and, in that, it succeeds very well. Not film noir (unlike some descriptions of it) - it's far from gritty or intriguing enough.Good work by Barry Fitzgerald as Lt Muldoon. Solid supporting cast too.One sour note is the narration (by producer Mark Hellinger). Most of it is unnecessary, and thus it dumbs down the movie. You feel like you are been spoon-fed information you can easily figure out for yourself. I would rather there was no narration at all.

romanorum1 The narrator intones, "There are eight million stories in the naked city …" as the film begins with scenes of the quiet city in the early hours after midnight. We are introduced to those who are working the third shift in a city that never sleeps. We know that we are not seeing a studio, for the "actors" – those who populate the great city of New York – are eventually observed in apartments, skyscrapers, factories, restaurants, coffee shops, parks, docks, and sidewalks. The city is hot in the summer. During the beginning narration, an unconscious blonde model is being murdered at the young age of 26 years. Within four hours, one of the two murderers kills the other and throws his body into the river. A few hours after that, the cleaning lady enters Miss Dexter's apartment, sees the body in a bathtub, and screams. Now our story takes hold. The police are quickly on the scene, and the newspapers follow. Before long the police examiner determines that the promiscuous woman's death was not by accident or suicide, but by homicide.Soon the lawmen discover that the dissolute woman was part of a jewel burglary ring that targeted the rich folks. Frank Niles, disreputable and a pathological liar, and Jean Dexter were part of the set-ups. Also a famous doctor is involved. In reality this film is a routine detective story. It involves the somewhat tedious but difficult – and sometimes dangerous – police work of investigation, of gathering information and piecing it all together. But the detectives and police are dedicated heroes who do their jobs with little complaint. It all comes down to a climax that involves an exciting city-wide dragnet for the arch-killer. Unfortunately for him, he is unable to board an overcrowded bus that would have taken him away from the targeted area. A panicked gunshot at a seeing-eye dog alerts police, and the ending occurs at the Williamsburg Bridge in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Case closed.As for Jean Dexter, "her name, her face, her history were worth five cents a day for six days." Now, with the case over, the old newspapers lying in the streets are cleaned up by the city trash men. Dexter is soon forgotten by virtually all, for there are eight million other stories brewing. A very few, including Dexter's grief-stricken parents, will never forget. The next day another story will reach the headlines, and our police heroes will be ready to solve another crime.Alhtough Muldoon spearheads the investigation, he is assisted by Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor); there are other detectives, like Constantino and Perelli, although they have lesser roles. The Irish brogue of Barry Fitzgerald (Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon) can be a bit overpowering, but the pint-sized detective does deliver his lines with knowledge and charm. And is he shrewd! Howard Duff plays sleaze Frank Niles, and Ted DeCorsia is a wicked Willie Garzah. The film's producer, Mark Hellinger, narrates.Shot on location on New York City streets in secret, and semi-documentary in style, the film is ground-breaking. It was obviously the inspiration of the later TV series, "Naked City" (1958-1963), and even "Dragnet" before that. The black and white photography is so good that the movie earned an Academy Award. Another award was won for film editing. While the old-time life of the city has changed, many of the police procedures seen are obviously in use today. If the plot seems standard or if the story appears boring at times, remember that detailed police procedure works the same way: constant probing, questioning, checking, and rechecking. Much less often does it consist of high speed chases and slam-bang shoot-outs. Who is the real hero of the story? Why the personality of the city of New York, of course!

filmalamosa The title of this film seemed familiar or maybe I was thinking of Night and the City ? Both by the same director. This film won awards for its city street scenes.I found the narration irritating and the cornball aspects depressing.The story was unremarkable with no surprises or twists that set you on edge. The acting mediocre or was it the directing? (same thing).The upside as others have noted was seeing New York before it was ruined...when average middle class people still lived there in all the neighborhoods.We have lost our cities.

evening1 I admit I work long days and don't have a lot of energy once I get home to watch one of my DVR'd movies. But I tried four times to see this film through to the end, and each time it put me to sleep. I finally gave up and deleted the loser.The movie starts out somewhat intriguingly in a documentary-like mode as it examines snippets of New York City life to set the scene. We then witness the last moments of a murder, which, strangely, the voice-over treats in a casual, jarringly wry manner. The movie then goes on to create a touchy-feely, leprechaun-like characterization of Irish police Lt. Muldoon and show his dedicated team of gumshoes, most notably Don Taylor as Halloran, an actor who bears an uncanny resemblance to Steve Doocy, a current FOX news network anchor. The scenes of Halloran at home with his perky, childish wife are dated, cutesy, and off-putting.Balancing this stuff out is a dour and extended visit with the dead woman's saturnine parents and scenes from the extremely dysfunctional relationship of sleazy murder suspect Frank Niles and Dorothy Hart as Ruth Morrison. The audience is supposed to dumbly accept that a gorgeous pin-up type like Ruth has no problem hitching her destiny to a creep like Niles. (I hate when audiences are taken for such fools!)I'm sorry I tried so many times to see this messy patchwork to its conclusion. The more I saw, the less I cared whodunit.