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Synopsis

Death of media magnate Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer. Reporter Edward Mobley is in that circumstances faced with almost impossible missions: to catch the killer, to prevent the media empire from falling into the wrong hands and to save his romantic relationship from break-up. —IMDb

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Fritz Lang

Bringing to the screen an obsessive and fatalistic world populated by a rogues’ gallery of strange and twisted characters, Lang staked out a uniquely hostile corner of the cinematic universe; despair, isolation, helplessness, all found refuge in the shadows of his work. A product of German Expressionist thought, he explored humanity at its lowest ebb, with a distinctively rich and bold visual sensibility which virtually defined film-noir long before the term was even coined. Born Friedrich Christian Anton Lang in Vienna, Austria, on December 5, 1890, he initially studied to become an artist and architect. He first entered the German film industry as a writer, penning a series of horror movies and thrillers beginning with 1917’s Hilde Warren Und Der Tod. In 1919, he and director Robert Wiene teamed on the script of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and although Lang exited in the pre-production stages to begin work on another project, his major contribution to the story, a framing device… read more

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Ingrid Bergman

30Jan12

Ida Lupino steals all of her scenes as Mildred Donner.

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asuraf

24Oct11

Solid newspaper flick directed by Fritz Lang (his penultimate American film), with Dana Andrews as a Winchell-esque TV man caught in the middle of a murder story, and power play involving Vincent Price, George Sanders, and Thomas Mitchell. Those four alone are worth the price of admission, and Ida Lupino's here too!

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Cinesthesia (aka Duncan)

30Mar11

The 1950s ladder of success drawn in gender distinctions, where the men get ahead by backstabbing and woman by sleeping around. So credit this film for intricate subtexts, and you can add visual flair as well. But the story itself is far too awkward, with arbitrary character behavior, an inconsistent tone, and a muddled sense of direction.

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orangey

2Oct10

while the audicence sleeps......this is a routine studio picture complete with a 2 cent love story in wich a stereotype of a "serial killer" happens to walk in.It's light years away from Lang's own M and feels more like a comedy than Monsieur Verdoux(way better and made in the late 40's).It's free of any film noir distinct visual style and it moves unraturally slow for something made in the 50's.Avoid at all costs.

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By jaredmo​barak on November 4, 2009

It may be difficult to accurately critique Fritz Lang’s While the City Sleeps since the conversation afterwards amongst friends pretty much tore apart any credibility the film had. What, upon completion…  read review

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