While the City Sleeps
Suspense as startling as a strangled scream!
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 13, 2011
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price & Ida Lupino | |
Performer: | Howard Duff, John Drew Barrymore, Sally Forrest, James Craig, Robert Warwick, Mae Marsh, Ralph Peters & Vladimir Sokoloff | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Edited by | Gene Fowler, Jr. | |
Screenplay by | Casey Robinson | |
Composition by | Herschel Burke Gilbert | |
Art Direction by | Carroll Clark | |
Produced by | Bert Friedlob | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Laszlo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Dour, disillusioned stuff -- easy to admire, harder to love.
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Total Film
Inventive as both a crime thriller, and a look at the omnipresent modern media.
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Classic Film and Television
Lang's most underrated movie.
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Time Out
Fritz Lang's fabulously cynical noir-inflected thriller is as much a satire on media machinations as an old-fashioned detective story...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It may not be in the same league as Metropolis, M or The Big Heat, but there are enough interesting elements to make it worthy of rediscovery.
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Future Movies UK
Rating: A- --
One of Fritz Lang's last and best American film noir, the plot is complex and involving, and the visual style clear and extremely effective
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The story is a cynical twist on Lang's famous M.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
"Ask mother," says the message scrawled in lipstick at a murder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story -- if it bleeds, it leads -- and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer.
Fritz Lang (The Big Heat), whose early-career expressionist works would strongly influence the film-noir genre, directs this stylistically understated noir that features an abundance of starpower rare for the genre: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino and other notables.
Product Description:
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS is one of Fritz Lang's must successful American movies and a classic of the psychological Noir genre. It is not merely a thriller, but rather a multi-layered vision of the power and problems both of the press and of humanity's all-encompassing greed. The editor of a flailing New York City paper dies just as a series of sex murders sweep the city. His dastardly son (Vincent Price) takes over the paper and pits three rival editors against each other in a contest to see which one of them can crack the case and identify the killer. As the murderer continues to stalk the city's women, the reporters go all out to catch him in hopes of securing the top spot at the newspaper. While several of the editors use their girlfriends to bait the killer, airing taunting television spots attempting to rouse his anger, Lang paints a portrait of professional greed and moral weakness in the face of physical danger. Set both in stark glass-walled newspaper offices and in the dark and dense streets of New York City, the killer's crimes take a back seat to the film's focus on the dog-eat-dog race of the three editors to win the favor of the newspaper's owner.
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- Sales Rank: 28,966
- UPC: 883316270615
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