Young model Jean Dexter is knocked unconscious and drowned in her own bathtub in her Manhattan apartment, and a lot of jewelry that she supposedly owned is missing. The Naked City is actually about six days in the life of New York City that coincide with the murder and the subsequent investigation by Lt. Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and Detective James Halloran (Don Taylor). The account of their work, and the workings of the New York City police department, is interspersed with brief vignettes about the life of the city around them, and, especially, the reaction of residents to the murder and the newspaper reports of the progress of the case. Their investigation carries them into the highest and lowest ends of New York's social strata to find the killer. The final chase on the Williamsburg Bridge is one of the classic pieces of suspense cinema, as the armed and desperate killer races up the walkway, while detectives close in on foot from behind and patrol cars come up from ahead, and then into the superstructure of the bridge for a stand-off and shootout. Producer/narrator Mark Hellinger,  intoned the closing monologue, which opens with one of the most famous tag lines in movie history: "There are eight million stories in the Naked City."

STARS.........: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
DIRECTOR......: Jules Dassin
WRITERS.......: Albert Maltz, Malvin Wald 
GENRE.........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
TOMATOMETER...: 86
IMDB RATING...: 7.6/10  10,053 votes
IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040636
RUNTIME.......: 1h 36mn
SIZE..........: 4.88 GB
VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main@L4)
BITRATE.......: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1........: English AAC 1.0 192kbps CVBR
AUDIO2........: Commentary by writer Malvin Wald
SUBTITLES.....: ENG
CHAPTERS......: Yes
SOURCE........: Arrow Blu Ray
ENCODED BY....: Sartre
ENCODE DATE...: 2018-06-21


Extras

• Stills Gallery
• New York and The Naked City
• The Hollywood Ten
• Jules Dassin at LACMA
• Audio Commentary
• Theatrical Trailer