Author Topic: Malvin Wald, Creator of ‘Naked City,’ Dies at 90  (Read 895 times)

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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.

His death was confirmed by his son, Alan.

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.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/arts/11wald.html?ref=arts

I must have seen some of these when I was a child, I don't recall the programmes themselves but I do remember that sign off. RIP.