About this episode

Dean and Phil discuss classic crime films, including 'Night and the City' and 'Mirage'.

On this second episode of Year 20 (“the year we get it right!”), Dean and Phil have crime on their minds! They start with an appreciation of director Jules Dassin’s classic film noir Night and the City. Then a Hitchcockian thriller, Mirage, by Edward Dmytryk, the man largely responsible for Jules Dassin getting blacklisted gets […]

People in this episode

Hosts: Dean, Phil

Topics covered

• film noir
• Hitchcockian thriller
• classic films
• blacklisting
• crime

Keywords

• film noir
• Hitchcock
• Jules Dassin
• Edward Dmytryk
• crime films

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Night and the City, Mirage

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