While the City Sleeps

Name: While the City Sleeps
Director: Fritz Lang
Released: 1955
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Cast: George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Vincent Price

by Fritz Lang1h401955United States

Recommended byFrançois Truffaut

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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 first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoops on the case.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Warner Bros. Pictures
- Production Compagny : E. Friedlob Productions
- Sound Recorder : Jack Solomon, Verna Fields, Buddy Myers
- Costume Design : Norma Koch
- Scenario : Casey Robinson
- Set Decoration : Jack Mills
- Editing : Gene Fowler Jr
- Photo Director : Ernest Laszlo
- Original Music : Herschel Burke Gilbert
- Original Work Author : Charles Einstein
- Producer : Bert E. Friedlob
- Director : Fritz Lang
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1955
- French release date : 3 août 1956
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : English

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This film is recommended by
- François Truffaut
This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"L’âge d’or des studios américains "
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While the City Sleeps

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Credits

Technical details

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By the same director

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The Tiger of Eschnapur

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From the same year

Stella

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With the same cast

George Sanders

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Moonfleet

All About Eve

Thomas Mitchell

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Gone With the Wind

Only Angels Have Wings

Dana Andrews

Night of the Demon

The Best Years of Our Lives

Boomerang !

Rhonda Fleming

Out of the Past

The Killer Is Loose

Vincent Price

Laura

Leave Her to Heaven

The Last Man on Earth

Ida Lupino

On Dangerous Ground

La Grande évasion

The Big Knife

Howard Duff

Kramer vs. Kramer

Sally Forrest

Never Fear

Not Wanted

This film is recommended by

François Truffaut

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"L’âge d’or des studios américains "