Jules Dassin

The Naked City Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin directs this New York-set film noir starring Barry Fitzgerald as homicide detective Dan Muldoon. Muldoon and his sidekick, Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor), are assigned to investigate when the dead body of a model is discovered in the bathtub at her Manhattan apartment. Although the case looks like a suicide at first glance, the coroner confirms that it is in fact murder, and suspicion falls on a number of shady characters who have connections with the dead woman.