While the City Sleeps - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "While the City Sleeps"

While the City Sleeps (1956)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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English

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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.

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