While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps (1956)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1956-04-19

Country

United States

Production

RKO Radio Pictures, Bert E. Friedlob Productions

Genre

Thriller, Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

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Director

Fritz Lang

Actors

Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, John Drew Barrymore, James Craig, Ida Lupino
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Bert E. Friedlob

Operator

Ernest Laszlo

Composer

Herschel Burke Gilbert

Artist

Audition

Editing

Gene Fowler Jr., George Yohalem
All team (17)

• The film is based on Charles Einstein's 1952 crime novel "Bloody Spur," which was inspired by the story of real-life killer and criminal William Heirens, who earned the nickname "The Lipstick Killer" after writing a message with lipstick at one crime scene, asking the police to stop him. Fritz Lang moved the film's setting from mid-1940s Chicago to 1950s New York.
• Fritz Lang relocated the film's action from mid-1940s Chicago to 1950s New York.
• The film is based on Charles Einstein's 1952 crime novel "Bloody Spur," which in turn was based on the story of real-life killer and criminal William Heirens, who earned the nickname "The Lipstick Killer" after writing a message with lipstick at one crime scene, asking the police to stop him.