While the City Sleeps 1956 123movies

Watch: While the City Sleeps 1956 123movies, Full Movie Online – Bedridden Amos Kyne is the owner and manager of Kyne Enterprises. Upon Amos’ death, his son, the ineffectual and disliked Walter Kyne, takes control of the business. Not wanting to do any of the work but retain the glory, Walter creates a new position, “executive director”, who effectively will become head of the organization, and a power struggle erupts between the executives. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on a rampage in New York City, and women fear for their lives. Reporter Ed Mobley tries to catch the killer and to prevent Kyne Enterprises from being destroyed over boardroom intrigues. A surprise “dark horse” wins the “executive director” position..
Plot: Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 6,524
	90% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 104 Popularity: 6.532 | TMDB

Reviews:

Entertaining But Unexciting
‘While The City Sleeps’ is a tale about nocturnal goings-on and those who engage in them. In this case, villains, cops & journalists. The villain in question is a serial killer. Dana Andrews plays a star investigative reporter at a paper with executive power struggles.

There’s plenty of American stalwarts of the day, including its director, but the movie never generates much momentum. Lang seemed to be making a point about the interaction between the three branches of life. As a result, presentation is piecemeal and priorities seem a little confused. We focus on the petty rivalries of those at the paper, whilst some villain is murdering lonely women. A great deal of time is spent following Andrews’ character’s turbulent love-life. This would be fine if the movie was a romantic comedy of manners, but it tends to eclipse the stalking beast and his terrible crimes. Likewise the squabbling over promotion amongst his colleagues.

All the threads rub along together. there’s almost no developing tension. Only when the stalker goes after Andrews’ fiancée do things move up a gear. But he’s caught after a pretty formulaic chase. Then we’re back to the office squabbles again.

It’s often described as a film-noir, but doesn’t cut it for me. It’s too stagy, filming is unimaginative, the plot is too predictable, the action too stilted and even the script is only average. Chandler it ain’t.

Worth a watch if there’s nothing else to do, but it’s just a pot-boiler, and certainly no classic.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director Fritz Lang
Writer Casey Robinson, Charles Einstein
Actors Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1 (intended ratio), 2.00 : 1 (SuperScope version)
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,726 m (Netherlands), 2,733 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process SuperScope
Printed Film Format 35 mm