THE SLEEPING CITY
Special Features: 75th Anniversary | Introduction by film historian Foster Hirsch on Oct. 11
Copies of Richard Koszarski's book "Keep 'Em in the East: Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance" are available for sale at the AFI Silver Café. Koszarki will be available to sign copies on August 19.
Drug pushing and gambling set the stage for murder in THE SLEEPING CITY, a hardboiled film noir thriller filmed on the streets of New York, written by Jo Eisinger (GILDA, NIGHT AND THE CITY) and directed by George Sherman (BIG JAKE, LARCENY). When a doctor is shot dead outside Bellevue Hospital, detective Fred Rowen (Richard Conte, CRY OF THE CITY, THIEVES' HIGHWAY) is tasked with finding the killer. Posing as an intern, Rowen is befriended by the hospital's elevator operator and a ward nurse (Coleen Gray, KISS OF DEATH, NIGHTMARE ALLEY) he begins to date. As his investigation continues and potential witnesses wind up dead, Rowen finds himself next on the murderer's list when he uncovers a narcotics ring. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect and he doesn't know whom he can trust. (Note courtesy of Kino Lorber.) DIR George Sherman; SCR Jo Eisinger; PROD Leonard Goldstein. U.S., 1950, b&w, 86 min. NOT RATED
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Run Time: 86 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025
Genre: Film noir
Introduction