City That Never Sleeps

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City That Never Sleeps
City That Never Sleeps movie poster
Directed by	John H. Auer
Produced by	John H. Auer
Written by	Steve Fisher
Starring	Gig Young Mala Powers William Talman
Distributed by	Republic Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	August 7, 1953 (U.S. release)
Running time	90 min.
Language	English
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City That Never Sleeps (1953) is a film noir produced and directed by John H. Auer with cinematography by John L. Russell.

[edit] Plot

Johnny Kelly is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. He plans on leaving his wife for exotic dancer Sally "Angel Face" Connors. When Penrod Biddel, a corrupt, powerful attorney, wants him for a job, Johnny is tempted. He needs money in order to get quick money to escape Chicago and start life anew with "Angel Face". Kelly accepts an assignment to escort a low-life former magician now criminal across the border to Indiana. Not all is what it seems and the more Kelly learns the more he's determined to do right.

[edit] Trivia

Some of the movie's writing ends up in a 2001 Bob Dylan song "Honest With Me" from the CD "Love and Theft":

Well, I'm stranded in the city that never sleeps Some of these women they just give me the creeps I'm avoidin' the Southside the best I can These memories I got, they can strangle a man