Dark City (1950 film)
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| Directed by | William Dieterle |
| Screenplay by | John Meredyth Lucas Larry Marcus Ketti Frings |
| Based on | "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, 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 the educational, Chicago-based Julius Caesar (1950). In later interviews, Heston called Dark City "definitely not an 'A' picture, but a pretty good 'B'". Webb and Morgan later costarred in the police drama television series Dragnet.