Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Pjtaylor-96-138044 'The Naked City (1948)' is marred by invasive and down-right bizarre meta-textual narration provided by the film's own producer, a constant presence presented with a kind of tabloid masculinity and omniscient edge that really gets in the way of the story, at times. The flick can often boil down to slow scenes of bored detectives mulling over old evidence to no avail. When it works, however, it works well. The case takes a few keen twists right when it seems at its most hopeless and the picture culminates in a genuinely thrilling climactic chase. Plus, this is a corner-stone in the police-procedural genre and the on-location filming was almost unparalleled. 7/10

Ed-Shullivan A woman is found dead in her bed by her cleaning lady which appears to be a suicide until the New York City police detectives take over the case and work it like a homicide. The venerable Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald is lead Detective Lt. Daniel Muldoon who needs all his wits about him as well as the assistance of all of his detectives to crack this case.There are a number of suspects with motives to investigate and in a semi-documentary style the audience is fed clues gradually as we follow behind the hard working detectives as they interview the cast of suspects. A key suspect is a playboy hustler named Frank Niles who is played by a very young and good looking Howard Duff in his second movie role.This is a film genre that has been lost (more likely extinct) to todays movie goers due in most part to film content and story line taking a back seat to today's Super Hero and Action films that are filled more with CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) than with an intriguing story line. Ten years after the 1948 film release of The Naked City the television producers over at ABC made a brilliant move and were successful in running 138 epsiodes over the next four (4) seasons. Even seventy (70) years later I still enjoyed watching this classic 1948 crime film classic .I give the film a solid 8 out of 10 rating/

elvircorhodzic The NAKED CITY is a film that has a strange modern tone. This my statement does not apply to authentic locations or semi-documentary style. I think that tone creates gorgeous, bizarre and humorous narration. Great narrator observes the lives of ordinary people "from above".The film was made with a lot of style. At the heart of the story is killing beautiful and hot models in New York. However, the action takes us to every corner of the big city and the privacy of ordinary people. Fiction is well hidden until the very end, that detective pursuit. Then the film goes into a good detective story.Drama is superficial, details are special, but repetitive and somehow give the impression of the daily routine. Daily routine does not follow the story of the film. This movie is certainly not an ordinary day in the big city. It is true that the big news, such as murder, very soon forgotten. However, leave traces.Acting is not at all special. Standard in a detective story. Barry Fitzgerald as Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon definitely stands out, but I do not see any specialty. I think the director has not cleared himself. Focus on the city or the citizens? It is a question !?

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!