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The Naked City (1948)
A crime film that calls upon the naturalism of the New York streets and its people to tell its story. It mostly works; a good ensemble cast helps to accentuate the key players in such an enormous city, and a voice-over narration which acts as a throwback to detective radio shows is almost spot-on. The film is less a film noir and more a docu-drama, calling on rough camera angles and at one point almost anticipating the invention of "shaky-cam", a technique that caught fire in the crime genre many decades later. Well-acted and admirably raw.
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