The Naked City

A film famous for not being shot inside a film studio (but in the center of New York City). That might've been interesting 70s years ago, nowadays, it's not really much of a selling point. And so The Naked City turned out to be a very basic noir, with some cops trying very hard to figure out a murder case.

Jean, an ex-model, is killed in her apartment. Two detectives, one seasoned cop and one rookie) are put on the case. They go around the neighborhood, asking people for information. It doesn't take long before they're on the tail of a group of burglars, who seem to be related to the case.

Though the films boasts (literally, in the intro monologue) about its use of outside locations, there are still many indoor scenes. These are incredibly dull, just static shots of men endlessly discussing the murder case. It isn't until the very end that New York is used to its fullest potential, but I'd stopped caring at least an hour earlier.