While the City Sleeps Overview:

While the City Sleeps (1928) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Jack Conway .

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Noir Nook: Ripped From the Headlines ? While the City Sleeps (1956)

By Karen Burroughs Hannsberry on Jan 18, 2024 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Ripped From the Headlines ? While the City Sleeps (1956) Most classic movie fans are well acquainted with the Barrymore acting clan, which began with Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew, and continued down the line to Drew Barrymore. Sandwiched somewhere in there was John Drew Barrymore ? John B... Read full article


Media People Solve Murders Again: ‘While the City Sleeps’ (Fritz Lang, 1956)

By Virginie Pronovost on Apr 18, 2020 From The Wonderful World of Cinema

When Gill from Real Weegie Midget Reviews announced that she was co-hosting a blogathon with Cinematic Catharsis honouring the one and only Vincent Price, I first went through his filmography to see which film I could write about. My attention was dragged to Fritz Lang before-last American film: Whi... Read full article


On Blu-ray: Friz Lang Does Noir in While the City Sleeps (1956) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

By KC on May 7, 2018 From Classic Movies

Director Fritz Lang had an astounding career. Influential, enduring, and inventive, he was able to adapt from silents to talkies and then from European to Hollywood filmmaking while keep his own unique style. I recently had the chance to watch two crime noir titles from late in his career: While the... Read full article


While the City Sleeps (1956)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 4, 2015 From 4 Star Films

While the City Sleeps has a brilliant cold open followed by a pounding title sequence, courtesy of Fritz Lang, that brings to mind a bit of Diabolique and Psycho. The rest of the film turns into a case to find the wanted lipstick murderer (based on a real killer), but that only holds part of our att... Read full article


While the City Sleeps (1956)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 4, 2015 From 4 Star Films

While the City Sleeps has a brilliant cold open followed by a pounding title sequence, courtesy of Fritz Lang, that brings to mind a bit of Diabolique and Psycho. The rest of the film turns into a case to find the wanted lipstick murderer (based on a real killer), but that only holds part of our att... Read full article


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The original Soundtrack for the feature is lost.
All prints missing portion s from reels 6 and 7.
Los Angeles City Hall, which opened in April of 1928, appears on film for perhaps the first time in the background of a few rooftop scenes.
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