The Naked City

Lieutenant Dan Muldoon and his aide investigate a murder in New York city. The banal plot of this crime thriller is merely an excuse for a semidocumentary portrait of the life of ordinary people in a major city. It continued the approach of such films as "Brute Force", was shot largely on location in New York, and used a hidden camera in many sequences to capture a candid, real, and unadorned view of the bared face of a city. Although universal re-edited the film without his consent, this is one of Dassin's best films. The film ends with "There are eight million stories in the naked city: this has been one of them." - a tag made famous by the TV series of the same name produced twelve years later.