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While the City Sleeps is a american film of genre Drama directed by Fritz Lang released in USA on 30 may 1956 with Dana Andrews
While the City Sleeps (1956)
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Add to a movie listWhile the City Sleeps is a 1956 film noir directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Casey Robinson, the newspaper drama was based on The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein, which depicts the story of "Lipstick Killer" William Heirens. The film features Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, John Drew Barrymore and Ida Lupino.
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A power struggle ensues after the death of media magnate Amos Kyne (Robert Warick), who turned his corporation over to his sole heir, foppish son Walter (Vincent Price). Rather than run the company himself, Walter decides to let the heads of its three divisions fight it out. Their assignment is to score an exclusive story on a serial killer terrorizing women in New York the Kyne organization's newspaper dubs "The Lipstick Killer". Whoever identifies him before the police will be rewarded the title of executive director.Actors
Dana Andrews
(Edward Mobley)
Rhonda Fleming
(Dorothy Kyne)
George Sanders
(Mark Loving)
John Drew Barrymore
(Robert Manners)
Ida Lupino
(Mildred Donner)
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