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Mood:
- AtmosphericTenseBitingRoughSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Serial KillerIntrigueJournalismManhuntWho Done ItDeadlyMediaMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- ThrillerFilm NoirMystery
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Time/Period:
- 50s
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Place:
- New YorkUSA
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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While the City Sleeps, 1956
English
USA
Profile of While the City Sleeps
The mood of While the City Sleeps is biting, tense, and atmospheric. The plot centers around a manhunt, intrigues, and journalism. It is a thriller and mystery movie. Stylistically, While the City Sleeps is a film noir. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is New York. While the City Sleeps happens in the 1950s. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of While the City Sleeps
While the City Sleeps is one of Fritz Lang's must successful American movies and a classic of the psychological Noir genre. It is not merely a thriller, but rather a multi-layered vision of the power and problems both of the press and of humanity's all-encompassing greed. The editor of a flailing New York City paper dies just as a series of sex murders sweep the city. His dastardly son (Vincent Price) takes over the paper and pits three rival editors against each other in a contest to see which one of them can crack the case and identify the killer. As the murderer continues to stalk the city's women, the reporters go all out to catch him in hopes of securing the top spot at the newspaper. While several of the editors use their girlfriends to bait the killer, airing taunting television spots attempting to rouse his anger, Lang paints a portrait of professional greed and moral weakness in the face of physical danger. Set both in stark glass-walled newspaper offices and in the dark and dense streets of New York City, the killer's crimes take a back seat to the film's focus on the dog-eat-dog race of the three editors to win the favor of the newspaper's owner.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 May 1956 |
| Runtime: | 100 min |
Cast and Crew
as Edward Mobley
as Dorothy Kyne
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