Dark City | |
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Directed by | William Dieterle |
Screenplay by | John Meredyth Lucas Larry Marcus |
Based on | the story "No Escape" by Larry Marcus |
Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
Starring | Charlton Heston Lizabeth Scott Viveca Lindfors Dean Jagger Don DeFore |
Cinematography | Victor Milner |
Edited by | Warren Low |
Music by | Franz Waxman |
Production company | Hal Wallis Productions |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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]