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While the City Sleeps

Suspense as startling as a strangled scream!

1956 · NR · 1h 40m

Directed by Fritz Lang

6.9

TMDB audience score
155 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

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Cast

  • Dana Andrews
    Edward Mobley

  • Rhonda Fleming
    Dorothy Kyne

  • George Sanders
    Mark Loving

  • Howard Duff
    Lt. Burt Kaufman

  • Thomas Mitchell
    John Day Griffith

  • Vincent Price
    Walter Kyne

  • Sally Forrest
    Nancy Liggett

  • John Drew Barrymore
    Robert Manners

  • James Craig
    "Honest" Harry Kritzer

  • Ida Lupino
    Mildred Donner

  • Robert Warwick
    Amos Kyne

  • Mae Marsh
    Mrs. Manners

  • Ralph Peters
    Gerald Meade

  • Sandy White
    Judith Felton

  • Larry J. Blake
    Tim

  • Celia Lovsky
    Miss Dodd

  • Ed Hinton
    Mike O'Leary

  • Pitt Herbert
    Carlo