Reporters compete to catch a serial killer., When a media mogul dies, his ambivalent son pits three newsmen against each to become his right-hand man, but ambition collides with danger and the competition attracts the attention of a brutal serial killer., While The City sleeps is a crime drama sending its lead actors on a twisted, dog eat dog journey into the underworld in their quest for success. The plot revolves around the aspirations of three newsmen – Mitchell, Sanders and Craig – each in line for the job of editor in chief of a New York tabloid cal The Sentinel. Upon the death of newspaper owner Warwick, his manipulative dilettante son Price takes charge. The city is being terrorised by a sex murderer known as ‘The Lipstick Killer’, a mama’s boy who preys on beautiful women at night. In a perverse power game, Price offers the newspapers top position to the man who can crack the case., When two women are brutally murdered, a newspaper tycoon offers the job of editor-in-chief to whichever newsman can crack the case. Reporter Ed Mobley reluctantly joins the media frenzy, but his investigations place himself and his fiancee Nancy in grave danger., The “lipstick killer”, a serial murderer who leaves the cryptic message “Ask Mother” at the crime scenes, is at large in the Big City. Vincent Price, the wastrelly inheritor of a major newspaper chain, offers a large cash reward to any of his staffers able to find out the identity of the elusive killer. This leads to a great deal of infighting amongst Price’s reporters, especially cynical journalist Dana Andrews, photographer James Craig, “sob sister” Ida Lupino, and wire service chief George Sanders. Integrity and human values are not considerations in the race for the gold: one of the contestants, in fact, willingly offers his girl friend as bait for the killer. Adapted by Casey Robinson from a novel by Charles Einstein, While the City Sleeps features Thomas Mitchell as a scheming managing editor, Rhonda Fleming as Price’s faithless wife, and John Barrymore Jr. as the mixed-up murderer, who in the end is more pawn than predator. To inject a bit of much-needed humor in the proceedings, director Fritz Lang inserted a scene wherein Ida Lupino puts the make on Dana Andrews by tantalizing him with a nude photograph — which turns out not to be of Ida but of a baby on a bear rug. Producer Bert Friedlob hated the scene, and insisted upon cutting it out. Lang offered a compromise: if the preview audience laughed, the scene stayed. They laughed, but Friedlob insisted upon extending the preview process until he came across an audience who wouldn’t laugh (they always did, and the scene is still in the film). Though a huge moneymaker for the flagging RKO Radio Pictures, While the City Sleeps was actually produced independently, and originally slated for United Artists release before RKO agree to distibute the film.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “While the City Sleeps ” ?
A: The main cast includes Dana Andrews,Rhonda Fleming,Ida Lupino,George Sanders,Sally Forrest,Thomas Mitchell,Vincent Price,Howard Duff,James Craig,John Drew Barrymore,Vladimir Sokoloff,Robert Warwick,Ralph Peters,Larry Blake,Ed Hinton,Mae Marsh,Sandra White,Celia Lovsky,Pitt Herbert,Andrew Lupino,David Andrews,Carleton Young,Carroll Clark,Casey Robinson,Ernest Laszlo,Jack Mills,Jack Solomon,Charles Einstein,Norma,Gus Norin,Gene Fowler Jr..
Q: When Did the “While the City Sleeps” Released?
A: The Movie “While the City Sleeps” originally aired on 1956-05-16 and released in the year of 1956.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “While the City Sleeps” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “While the City Sleeps” ?
A: “While the City Sleeps” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
