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.
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.