Dark City (1950 film)

Dark City
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWilliam Dieterle
Screenplay byJohn Meredyth Lucas
Larry Marcus
Based onthe story "No Escape"
by Larry Marcus
Produced byHal B. Wallis
StarringCharlton Heston
Lizabeth Scott
Viveca Lindfors
Dean Jagger
Don DeFore
CinematographyVictor Milner
Edited byWarren Low
Music byFranz Waxman
Production
company
Hal Wallis Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 6, 1950 (1950-10-06)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Dark City is a 1950 American film noir crime film starring Charlton Heston in his Hollywood debut, and featuring Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore, Ed Begley, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and directed by William Dieterle.

This was Heston's first appearance in a professional film production, following his participation in David Bradley's amateur Peer Gynt (1941) and semi-professional Julius Caesar (1950). In later interviews, he would refer to Dark City as "definitely not an 'A' picture, but a pretty good 'B'." Webb and Morgan would go on to famously co-star in the popular police drama television series Dragnet.[1]