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Jules Dassin's classic 1950 film Noir featured two scores - Franz Waxman scored the Worldwide Release and Benjamin Frankel scored the British Territories Release. Here are BOTH complete scores on a double CD with a 32 page deluxe color booklet.
Disc One (45:15)
Music by Benjamin Frankel
(British Territories Release)
1. Main Title/The City At Night 2:47
2. Mary’s Apartment :42
3. Adam’s Music Bank :23
4. Mary Gives Money to Harry 1:26
5. Harry Buys A Carnation :27
6. Instructions :53
7. Harry Buys Information From Taxi Driver 1:32
8. American Bar 2:16
9. Harry Meets Gregorius :15
10. Here’s To Champagne :49
11. Phil Gives Helen The Fur Coat 1:59
12. Harry Amuses Phil 2:04
13. Harry Tries To Raise £200 2:05
14. Mary At The Silver Fox 2:49
15. Harry And Helen At The Cafe 1:25
16. Helen Gives Harry Money For The License 1:06
17. Phil’s Office After Chilk Leaves 1:36
18. Phil Realizes Helen Sold The Coat :44
19. Phil Overhears Helen 1:02
20. Restaurant Mambo 2:33
21. Harry Angers The Strangler :27
22. Harry Tells Phil He Has The Strangler :25
23. You’re A Dead Man, Harry Fabian :35
24. Harry Gets Money From Mary’s Apartment 2:24
25. Kristo Offers Reward For Harry 1:44
26. Strangler Goes Looking For Harry :23
27. Helen Leaves Phil 1:54
28. Phony License 1:56
29. Harry Escapes From Figler 1:21
30. Mary Finds Harry At Anna O’Leary’s 2:25
31. Denouement 2:34
Disc Two (62:40)
Music by Franz Waxman
(Worldwide Release)
1. Prelude/This Is London 3:49
2. Oh, Harry 4:44
3. Die Bajadere/Fabian's Job/Akkordeon Solo :34
4. Cafe Anglais - "Don't Fence Me In" 1:42
5. "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover" 1:30
6. Meeting Gregorius :12
7. "Here's To Champagne" :48
8. "Again" 3:56
9. "There’s Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes" 2:04
10. I’ll Show You :21
11. No Loan 2:47
12. "It’s the Syme The Whole World Over"/"The Jolly Young
Winterman"/"Waltz For Bag Rags" 5:13
13. Mr. Chilk (Phil Gets a Message) 2:10
14. Mr. Chilk (The Coat is Gone) 1:51
15. Phoney License 1:08
16. Fat Man’s Face :07
17. "Yours (Quiereme Mucho)"/The Strangler Objects 2:58
18. Fabian And Nosseross :47
19. Fabian A Thief - Part One 1:44
20. Fabian A Thief - Part Two 2:46
21. Get Fabian 2:04
22. "It Happens Every Spring" :23
23. "The Right Kind" 2:38
24. The Shot Tower/Fabian And Thug/The Window 5:08
25. At Helen’s Club 1:43
26. Figler’s Double Cross 4:56
27. Good Old Mary 2:27
28. Finale 1:55
Total Time: 107:55
Jules Dassin's "Night and the City" opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets of London. Harry wants to be big-time, and he does not care how he raises cash for his schemes. Like a junkie, he uses and steals from his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney), a singer at the Silver Fox, a seedy nightclub owned by the physically grotesque Phil Nosseross (Francis L. Sullivan.) Harry, who also works for Phil steering unsuspecting customers to the club, comes up with a plan to wrest control of professional wrestling from promoter and underworld kingpin Kristo (Herbert Lom) by manipulating Kristo through his father, retired wrestling great Gregorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko). For financial backing, Harry turns to Phil and Phil's wife Helen (Googie Withers), both of whom give him the money, but only to further their own ends. When Gregorius is accidentally killed by his protege's upcoming opponent, Strangler (Mike Mazurki), and Phil realizes that Helen is leaving him for Harry, the scheme quickly unravels. Truly a glimpse of hell, 'Night and the City's" distorted visuals and dark symbolism depict an underworld from which there is no escape and in which redemption comes at a very high price.