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| “There are eight million stories in the Naked City. . . ." |
| 2008-03-11 |
| Malvin Wald, Creator of ‘Naked City,’ Dies at 90 Malvin Wald, who conceived and was a co-writer of the gritty 1948 crime film “The Naked City,” a prototype for modern police dramas, including the popular television show of the same name, died on Thursday in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 90 and lived in Sherman Oaks. Ending with the famous lines “There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them,” “The Naked City,” which was written with Albert Maltz, was inspired by Mr. Wald’s adolescent years on the streets of Brooklyn. “No one had done a film where the real hero was a hard-working police detective, like the ones I knew in Brooklyn,” Mr. Wald told The Hollywood Reporter last year. “We knew we were making a new genre that became the police procedural.” |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #1 Awww - NAKED CITY [TV Show] was a staple of evening fare in 1960's Guam, alongside WAGON TRAIN, GUNSMOKE, HAVE GUN-WILL TRAVEL ["PALADIN"], COMBAT, DRAGNET, FATHER KNOWS BEST, MR. ED, DISNEY. etc.... My late father was real fan of NAKED CITY, PALADIN, + COMBAT. Can barely remember last nite's assorted REALITY SHOWS, BUT YOU CAN BE D *** NGED SURE NAKED CITY + ABOVE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-11 19:03 |