Alan King, Barry Primus, Cliff Gorman
The story of a cheating and incompetent lawyer (Harry Fabian) who suddenly becomes obsessed about becoming a boxing promoter.
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Night and the City starring Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange is a good drama set in NYC. Harry (De Niro) is a ambulance chasing lawyer whom is romantically involved with a married woman (Lange) who works at her own bar. A good film to see with the great actors De Niro & Lange.
So De Niro does great here, and his monologues and way of speaking incessantly are pretty good.
But this film, it just feels like this tired, old retread of something out there that's better. Oh wait, it's a remake, that's why!
I mean, Warden's good, hell, even Lange and her ter...( read more)
Iconic performance by Robert DeNiro as Harry Fabian, a loser who keeps trying to hit it big. At first you feel sorry for this schliemeil but as time goes by, he realizes he could hurt someone(s) dear to him and yet he can't back down. Jessica Lange is his sometime-girlfriend who ...( read more)
One of the very few movies to make me turn it off before the end of the first act. And that's a tall order considering that Robert DeNiro was starring. At least the original didn't have to worry about being outdone.
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