the naked city

Yesterday I saw the film the naked city. which i falls in the film noir cateogray. but this film is a little more unique because it is actually shot on location in new york. which very few films did. the cinematopraphy is really wounderful and showed how much it paided off to use those locations.
the other big thing that helped this story alot is the characters. there are several dectectives in this story trying to solve the case and there all very different. In stead of having kind of one dinmensional blank guys doing it. it makes following the dectives just as intresting as the murder itself. kinda like homicide life on the street.
It's also not a very dark film noir. i mean yeah it's shot with shadow and shit but the tone is lighter then most of this period. I think that this would help anyone who isn't nessarily into film noir get in to. In fact I would say that if you hate film noir you'd like this movie.
It was just this tuesday released on dvd by the critrion collection with a new fancey cover and shit. so alot of video stores will carry it. I reccomend it. It's lighter but it's still good.