While the City Sleeps

Japanese: 《While the City Sleeps》(英語表記)WhiletheCitySleeps
While the City Sleeps

…Produced in 1950. Another title is “While the City Sleeps.” Director John Huston, who specializes in films about men's ambitions and failures, portrayed the drama of men who come together to plan a safe-cracking scheme to steal a million-dollar jewel in a “hard-boiled” style, and this film marked the beginning of the “heist film” or “group robbery film” that would later become established as a film genre ( “The Battle of the Men” 1955, “The League of Gentlemen” 1960, “The Righteous” 1970, etc.). …

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Japanese:

…1950年製作。“While the City Sleeps”という別題がある。男たちの野望と挫折をテーマとした映画を得意とするジョン・ヒューストン監督が,100万ドルの宝石をねらう金庫破りの計画に集まった男たちのドラマを〈ハードボイルド・タッチ〉で描き,その後一つの映画ジャンルとして定着する〈泥棒映画〉,あるいは〈集団強盗映画〉(《男の争い》1955,《紳士同盟》1960,《仁義》1970,など)のはしりとなった。…

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