On this day in movie history - Night and the City (1992 movie & novel):

Night and the City

directed by Irwin Winkler,

written by Richard Price,

based on the novel by Gerald Kersh,

was released in the United States on October 23, 1992.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King, Jack Warden, Eli Wallach, Barry Primus, Gene Kirkwood, Gerard Murphy, Clem Caserta, Anthony Canarozzi, David W. Butler, Byron Utley, Margo Winkler, Maurice Shrog, Regis Philbin, Joy Philbin, Richard Price, Franklin Dennis Jones, Thomas Mikal Ford, Peter Bucossi, Bert Randolph Sugar, Nathaniel E. Johnson, Brenda Denmark, Barry Squitieri, Lisa Vidal, Carol Woods, Joseph D'Onofrio, Michael Badalucco, Deborah Watkins, Nandan Sage, Harsh Nayyar, Ben Lin, John Polce, Rosalind Malloff, Kennan Scott, Henry Milligan, Victor Machado, Chuck Low, Lou Polo, Louis Cantarini, John Quinn, Philip Carlo, Cameron Lane, Sharrieff Pugh, Mitchell Tex Low, Mick Cunningham, Dave Reilly, Leslie Bart, Ann Devaney, Lorenzo Palminteri, Catherine Russell, Ed Bannister, David Boston, Angel Brown, Alfred Cole, Ronnie Cuber, Dan Gifford, Gary Gold, Jennifer C. Johnson, Diane Kimbrell, Leslie Lawrence, John Maczko, Felicia Peluso, Michael Rispoli, Beverley Sutherland, Michael Tenaglia, Paul Zimmerman.

Recommended reading:

Night And The City

By Gerald Kersh.

Published by London Books.

First published 1938.

ISBN-10: 0995721734

ISBN-13: 9780995721739

Description:

Harry Fabian is a cockney wide boy trying to make it big in the Soho underworld of the 1930s. He is a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a chancer operating in a cosmopolitan corner of the city where villains, spivs, prostitutes and strong-arm men thrive. But his ambition and reckless nature are pushing him towards more and more extreme acts - and a day of reckoning. Night And The City is a classic work of social-realist fiction that captures the vibrant yet seedy underbelly of London between the world wars. Its author Gerald Kersh was high-profile, prolific and hugely popular at his peak, but would later drift into hardship and obscurity. His writing is now being rediscovered. A maverick character in his own right, Kersh's life was as colourful as those of his most flamboyant creations. As well as a highly respected novel, Night And The City was twice filmed - in 1950 and 1992 - and it is the first of these adaptations that is today regarded as one of the best of the British film-noir genre. Directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark and Googie Withers, it was shot in a post-war landscape heavy with menace and charm - just like the book on which it was based.

Recommended reading - Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction (1992):

Murder Plus

True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction

Edited by Marc Gerald

Paperback

Published 1992.

Published by Pharos Books.

ISBN 13: 9780886876623

ISBN 10: 0886876621

ASIN: 0886876621

Description:

A collection of twenty-five true crime stories culled from the pages of old pulp magazines features works by such masters of detective fiction as Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Bloch, Ellery Queen, Harlan Ellison, and others. Simultaneous.

On this day in music history - Arie Antiche: Se tu m’ami, by Cecilia Bartoli (1992):

Arie Antiche: Se tu m’ami

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,
released October 13, 1992.

Track list:

Già Il Sole Dal Gange; Son Tutta Duolo; Se Florindo È Fedele; O Cessate Di Piagarmi; Spesso Vibra Per Suo Gioco; Caro Mio Ben; Pur Dicesti, O Bocca Bella; Intorno All’Idol Mio; Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento; Il Mio Ben Quando Verrà; O Leggiadri Occhi Belli; Quella Fiamma Che M’Accende; Selve Amiche; Sebben, Crudele; Tu Ch’Hai Le Penne, Amore; Se Tu M’Ami; Chi Vuol La Zingarella; Amarilli; Delizie Contente; Sposa Son Disprezzata; Vittoria, Vittoria!

On this day in movie history - Glengarry Glen Ross (1992 movie & play):

Glengarry Glen Ross

directed by James Foley,

written by David Mamet,

based on the play by David Mamet,

was released in the United States on October 2, 1992.

Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce, Bruce Altman, Jude Ciccolella, Paul Butler, Lori Tan Chinn, Neal Jones, Barry Rohrssen, Leigh French, George Cheung, Murphy Dunne, Dana Lee, Julie Payne, Gregory Snegoff, Skipp Lynch.

Recommended reading:

Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

By David Mamet.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984.

Published by Grove Press.

First published 1983.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0802130917

ISBN-13: 978-0802130914

Description:

Comic Drama Characters: 7 males.

2 interior sets.

“Who needs caffeine when you’ve got Glengarry Glen Ross? … David Mamet’s play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office in Chicago feels like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream…. Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still surpassed by any other dramatist.” – New York Times.

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the most celebrated and widely performed plays of recent years. It is a scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here, Mamet is at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough people who cajole, connive, wheel and deal for a piece of the action an existence where closing a sale can mean a brand-new Cadillac, but losing one can mean losing it everything.

“Wonderfully funny … a play to see, remember and cherish.” – New York Post.

On this day in music history:

Our Time in Eden by 10,000 Maniacs (1992)

Real by Belinda Carlisle (1993)

Mr. Brightside by The Killers (2003)

The Soul of a Man / documentary (2003)

Un frisson français: A Century of French Song by Susan Graham (2008)

Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin (2009)

Wilder Shores by Belinda Carlisle (2017)

Our Time in Eden

Album by 10,000 Maniacs,

released September 29, 1992.

Track list: Noah's Dove; These Are Days; Eden; Few and Far Between; Stockton Gala Days; Gold Rush Brides; Jezebel; How You've Grown; Candy Everybody Wants; Tolerance; Circle Dream; If You Intend; I'm Not the Man.

Real

Album by Belinda Carlisle,

released September 29, 1993.

Track list: Goodbye Day; It’s Too Real (Big Scary Animal); Too Much Water; Lay Down Your Arms; Where Love Hides; One With You; Wrap My Arms; Tell Me; Windows Of The World; Here Comes My Baby.

Mr. Brightside

Song by The Killers,

released September 29, 2003.

The Soul of a Man

Documentary directed and written by Wim Wenders.

Part 2 of the documentary series The Blues.

Produced by Martin Scorsese.

Released in the United States on September 29, 2003.

Additional music by Davis Coen.

Cast: Chris Thomas King, Keith B. Brown, James Hughes, David F. Hughes, Shayne Tingle, Joy Brashears, David Barnes, Beck, James Blood Ulmer, T Bone Burnett, Nick Cave, Eagle Eye Cherry, Shemekia Copeland, Cream, Laurence Fishburne, Skip James, Garland Jeffreys, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, J.B. Lenoir, Los Lobos, John Mayall, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Vernon Reid, Marc Ribot, Seaberg Ronnog, Steve Seaberg, Richard Shurman, Dick Waterman, Lucinda Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Alvin Youngblood Hart.

Un frisson français: A Century of French Song

Album by Susan Graham,

released September 29, 2008.

Track list: Paladilhe: Psyché; Chausson: Les papillons, Op. 2, No. 3; Bachelet: Chère nuit; Duparc: Au pays où se fait la guerre; Ravel: Le paon (Histoires naturelles); Caplet: Le corbeau et le renard; Roussel: Réponse d’une épouse sage, Op. 35, No. 2; Messiaen: La fiancée perdue; Debussy: Colloque sentimental (Fêtes galantes II); Faure: Vocalise-Etude; Hahn: A Chloris; Satie: Le Chapelier; Honegger: Trois Chansons de la Petite Sirene: I. Chanson des sirens; Honegger: Trois Chansons de la Petite Sirene: II. Berceuse de la Sirène; Honegger: Trois Chansons de la Petite Sirene: III. Chanson de la poire; Canteloube: Brezairola; Rosenthal: La souris d’Angleterre; Poulenc: La Dame de Monte Carlo.

Dear Agony

Album by Breaking Benjamin,

released September 29, 2009.

Track list: Fade Away; I Will Not Bow; Crawl; Dear Agony; Lights Out; What Lies Beneath; Without You; Give Me A Sign; Hopeless; Into The Nothing; Anthem Of The Angels.

Wilder Shores

Album by Belinda Carlisle,

released September 29, 2017.

Track list: Adi Shakti; Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad; Light Of My Soul; Rakhe Rakhan Har; Har Gobinday; Humee Hum Brahm Hum; Aad Guray Nameh; Long Time Sun; Heaven Is A Place On Earth.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Time’s Arrow, Part II.

Released September 19, 1992.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Jeri Taylor, Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jerry Hardin, Pamela Kosh, William Boyett, Michael Aron, James Gleason, Mary Stein, Alexander Enberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cho Lee, Majel Barrett, Teda Bracci, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Debbie David, Van Epperson, Keith Gearhart, Malachy Fergus Godfrey, Bob Harks, Christi Haydon, Gary Hunter, Fred Janos, Arvo Katajisto, Christina Wegler Miles, Jack Murdock, Keith Rayve, Robert Seeley, Victor Sein, K. Uchizono, Guy Vardaman.

On this day in movie history - Unforgiven (1992):

Unforgiven

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by David Webb Peoples,

was released in the United States on August 7, 1992.
Music by Lennie Niehaus.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Anna Thomson, David Mucci, Rob Campbell, Anthony James, Tara Dawn Frederick, Beverley Elliott, Liisa Repo-Martell, Josie Smith, Tantoo Cardinal, Shane Meier, Aline Levasseur, Ron White, Jeremy Ratchford, John Pyper-Ferguson, Jefferson Mappin, Mina E. Mina, Henry Kope, Larry Joshua, Ben Cardinal, Frank C. Turner, Lochlyn Munro, Philip Hayes.

On this day in movie history - A Stranger Among Us (1992):

A Stranger Among Us

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Robert J. Avrech,

was released in the United States on July 17, 1992.
Music by Jerry Bock.

Cast:

Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan, Lee Richardson, Mia Sara, Jamey Sheridan, Jake Weber, Ro'ee Levi, David Rosenbaum, Ruth Vool, David Margulies, Edward Rogers III, Maurice Schell, James Gandolfini, Christopher Collins, Burtt Harris, Ira Rubin, Françoise Granville, Rena Sofer, Shifra Lerer, Eleanor Reissa, Jim Lovelett, Jack Gill, Steve Hamilton, Paul Zim, Drew Eliot, Sasha Pasmur, John Louis Fischer, Jack Beers.

On this day in movie history - Death Becomes Her (1992):

Death Becomes Her

directed by Robert Zemeckis,

written by Martin Donovan and David Koepp,

was released in the United States on July 13, 1992.
Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy, Adam Storke, Nancy Fish, Alaina Reed-Hall, Michelle Johnson, Mary Ellen Trainor, William Frankfather, John Ingle, Clement von Franckenstein, Petrea Burchard, Jim Jansen, Mimi Kennedy, Paulo Tocha, Mark Davenport, Thomas Murphy, Michael Mills, Sonia Jackson, Jill C. Klein, Jean St. James, Debra Jo Rupp, Carol Ann Susi, Kay Yamamoto, Jacquelyn K. Koch, Anya Longwell, Stuart Mabray, Colleen Morris, Jonathan Silverman, Meg Wittner, Carrie Jean Yazel, Michael A. Nickles, John Enos, Danny Lee Clark, Fabio, Joel Beeson, Ron Stein, Bonnie Cahoon, Stéphanie Anderson, Bob Swain, Eric Clark, Dave Brock, Lydia Peterkoch, Phillip Irwin Cooper, Ernest Harada, Susan Kellermann, Kevin Caldwell, Alex Hernandez, Donna Ekholdt, Tammy Gantz, Melissa Martin, Jeff Adkins, Cheryl Baxter, Cameron English, Edmond Alan Forsyth, Bob Gaynor, Don Hesser, Michael Higgins, Kenneth Hughes, Kenneth Knaff, Glean Lewis, Keith McDaniel, Charles McGowan, Regan Patno, Lacy Darryl Phillips, Matt Sergott, Paul Michael Thorpe, Sergio Trujillo, Randy Crenshaw, Jon Joyce, Jerry Whitman, Timothy Burchett, Anthony S. Johnson, Michael Mills, Michael O’Hearn, Sydney Pollack, Ai Wan, Richard Yett.