The Public Eye movie storyline. Leon Bernstein is New York’s best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops or crooks. The pictures are often of death and pain, but they are the ones the others wish they had got. Then glamorous Kay Levitz turns to him when the Mob seem to be muscling in on the club she owns due to some arrangement with her late husband. Bernstein, none too successful with women, agrees to help, saying there may be some good photos in it for him. In fact, he is falling in love with Kay.
The Public Eye is a 1992 neo-noir film produced by Sue Baden-Powell and written and directed by Howard Franklin, starring Joe Pesci and Barbara Hershey. Stanley Tucci and Richard Schiff appear in supporting roles. The film is loosely based on New York Daily News photographer Arthur “Weegee” Fellig, and some of the photos in the film were taken by Fellig.
The Public Eye (1992)
Directed by: Howard Franklin
Starring: Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle, Laura Cerón, Bryan Travis Smith, Max Brooks, Christian Stolte, Marge Kotlisky, Timothy Hendrickson, Jared Harris
Screenplay by: Howard Franklin
Production Design by: Marcia Hinds
Cinematography by: Peter Suschitzky
Film Editing by: Evan A. Lottman
Costume Design by: Jane Robinson
Set Decoration by: Jan K. Bergstrom
Art Direction by: Bo Johnson, Dina Lipton
Music by: Mark Isham
MPAA Rating: R for violence.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 14, 1992
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