FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
While the City Sleeps
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer91%as of 2024-11-08
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.8/10as of 2021-10-05
What it is
While the City Sleeps is a 1956 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, John Drew Barrymore and Ida Lupino. Written by Casey Robinson, the newspaper drama was based on The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein, which was inspired by the case of Chicago serial killer William Heirens.
At a glance
- Genres
- Crime / Thriller
- Original language
- English
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