While the City Sleeps is a 1956 film directed by Fritz Lang. The newspaper drama, written by Casey Robinson was based on The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein. The drama features Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, and others.
The film weaves together two stories: a serial killer hunt and the competition for a newspaper's editorship.
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.
All prints missing portion s from reels 6 and 7.
The original Soundtrack for the feature is lost.
Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer. Reporter Edward Mobley is in that circumstances faced with almost impossible missions: to catch the killer, to prevent the media empire from falling into the wrong hands and to save his romantic relationship from break-up. Written by Dragan Antulov
