Night and the City
(1950)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 295 votes
Year: 1950
Runtime: 96 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: Ричард Уидмарк, Francis L. Sullivan, Джин Тирни, Googie Withers, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Герберт Лом, Hugh Marlowe, Mike Mazurki, Charles Farrell, Ada Reeve
Plot
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be his ticket to financial independence. As Fabian attempts to con everyone around him to get his scheme to work, he of course only ends up conning himself. This is an interesting tale of blind ambition, self-deception, broken dreams, and how a man who always thinks he's ahead of the game ends up tripping himself very badly.