While the City Sleeps

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Directed by

Fritz Lang

Starring (View all)

Dana Andrews
Edward Mobley

Rhonda Fleming
Dorothy Kyne

George Sanders
Mark Loving

Howard Duff
Lt. Burt Kaufman

Thomas Mitchell
Jon Day Griffith

Vincent Price
Walter Kyne

Sally Forrest
Nancy Liggett

John Drew Barrymore
Robert Manners

Written by

Casey Robinson
(screenplay)

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A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York, and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the 1st administrator who can get the earliest scoops on the case.

Release date: 30 May 1956

Tags: Film Noir (8), Drama (5), Murder (5), 1956 (5), 1950s (4), Subway (4), Based On Novel (3), New York (3), Crime (3), Newspaper (3), Detective (3), Battle (2), Serial Killer (2), Money (2), Bw (2), Reporter (2), Psychoanalysis (1), Killing (1), Burglar (1), Rich (1)

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