Film critic Bosley Crowther , while having problems with the script , liked the location shooting and wrote , " Thanks to the actuality filming of much of its action in New York , a definite parochial fascination is liberally assured all the way and the seams in a none-too-good whodunnit are rather cleverly concealed . And thanks to a final , cops-and-robbers " chase " through East Side Manhattan and on the Williamsburg Bridge , a generally talkative mystery story is whipped up to a roaring ' Hitchcock ' end . " In July 2018 , it was selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section at the 75th Venice International Film Festival
75th Venice International Film Festival
75th Venice International Film Festival
The Naked City