Review of The Naked City (1948) by Steven W — 22 Feb 2016

Decent, though fairly conventional, murder drama.

A woman is murdered in her New York apartment. Detective Lt Dan Muldoon.

And his men from the Homicide Squad are on the case...

Interesting, in that all the scenes were shot on actual New York.

Locations - nothing was shot in a studio. Unfortunately, this self-.

Proclaimed (by the narrator/producer) novelty is about all that is.

Innovative about the movie. Plot is a fairly conventional,.

Investigation-based, whodunnit. There are some intrigues along the way,.

But nothing you can't see from a distance away. No great twists at all.

If anything, this is a movie about how police detectives do their jobs,.

And, in that, it succeeds very well. Not film noir (unlike some descriptions of it) - it's far from gritty or intriguing enough.

Good work by Barry Fitzgerald as Lt Muldoon. Solid supporting cast too.

One sour note is the narration (by producer Mark Hellinger). Most of it.

Is unnecessary, and thus it dumbs down the movie. You feel like you are.

Been spoon-fed information you can easily figure out for yourself. I.

Would rather there was no narration at all.