“Suspense as startling as a strangled scream!”
While the City Sleeps
6.9
144 votes·1956
·1h 40m
·MovieThrillerDrama
Overview
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Keywords
new york cityfilm noirserial killerblack and whitenewspaper man
Cast
Dana Andrews
Edward Mobley
Rhonda Fleming
Dorothy Kyne
George Sanders
Mark Loving
Howard Duff
Lt. Burt Kaufman
Thomas Mitchell
John Day Griffith
Vincent Price
Walter Kyne
Sally Forrest
Nancy Liggett
John Drew Barrymore
Robert Manners
James Craig
"Honest" Harry Kritzer
Ida Lupino
Mildred Donner
Robert Warwick
Amos Kyne
Mae Marsh
Mrs. Manners
Ralph Peters
Gerald Meade
Sandy White
Judith Felton
Larry J. Blake
Tim
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