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While the City Sleeps (1956)

Drama | 100 minutes
3,35 75 votes

Genre: Drama / Filmnoir

Duration: 100 minuten

Alternative title: Het Vijfde Slachtoffer

Country: United States

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Stars: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming and George Sanders

IMDb score: 6,9 (7.484)

Releasedate: 19 April 1956

While the City Sleeps plot

"Suspense as startling as a strangled scream!"

After the death of media mogul Amos Kyne, his son Walter, whom he has always excluded, inherits his media empire in New York. Walter pits the three top executives in the company, John Day Griffith (newspaper division), Mark Loving (radio division) and Harry Kritzer (photography division) against each other. One of them can become the executive director. Walter uses the news about the maniacal "lipstick killer" to do this; a serial killer targeting young women. Amos Kyne's favorite journalist Edward Mobley now has three difficult tasks: finding the serial killer, making sure the media empire doesn't fall into the wrong hands and maintaining his love affair with the jealous Nancy Liggett.

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Actors and actresses

Edward Mobley

Dorothy Kyne

Lt. Burt Kaufman

John Day Griffith

Walter Kyne

Nancy Liggett

"Honest" Harry Kritzer

Mildred Donner

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Movsin

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Penultimate film by Fritz Lang in the States. A story about the hunt for a serial killer, but with that story as a background, the film actually largely focuses on the journalistic world and especially how great the urge of the people of the press is to publish the most sensational news. Elbow work, envy, jealousy and low games, in which the females do play an important role, fill this typical American film that can boast of course good directing, smooth dialogues and skilled actors.

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Filmkriebel

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Rather mediocre. More of a crime comedy with some romance in between than a true film noir. Quite a chatty whole if you ask me that drags on firmly in the second half. The serial killer story is not that fascinating and is subordinate to the nomination race for a management position in a media empire and the associated games that are played between each other. It lends itself to a remake, and then I see George Clooney in the role from Ed Mobiley.

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clubsport

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A strange combination of a thriller about a murderer and the somewhat comical battle between 3 men for a position in a media company , that aspect of the story could hardly interest me despite the good performances of the actors involved .

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Лучший частный хостинг