NIGHT AND THE CITY

GB
1950
1hr 41mins
Dir: Jules Dassin
Starring: Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney

An ambitious American hustler is pursued by the London criminal underworld

This film noir is based on the 1938 Gerald Kersh novel of the same name and features one shot of a London tram on Westminster Bridge. There is also a night scene towards the end with a passenger train passing across the distant landscape but it is really too dark to make anything out.

The tram approaches Westminster Bridge as Richard Widmark hails a taxi