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In Jules Dassin: Blacklist and exile
…one of his best movies, Night and the City (1950). A dark film noir, it starred Richard Widmark as an American hustler involved in London’s wrestling racket, Gene Tierney as his singer girlfriend, and Mike Mazurki as a wrestler who eventually seals Widmark’s doom.
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In Herbert Lom
In the 1950 noir Night and the City, Lom played a dangerous figure in the high-stakes underground world of professional wrestling.
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