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Information
- Year
- 1956
- Runtime
- 100 min.
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 3,497
- Checks
- 1,087
- Favs
- 35
- Dislikes
- 15
- Favs/checks
- 3.2% (1:31)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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ucuruju
This was very good. Everybody's a sexist and men are pigs. An extremely -and disturbingly- horny film. 3 years 5 months ago -
Siskoid
In While the City Sleeps, Fritz Lang introduces a violent serial killer, but the focus is actually on newsmen trying to scoop one another on the killer's identity and arrest so they can get a big job in their media empire. Internal politics are more important than detective work, and I couldn't always decide if it was an interesting way to tackle a crime picture, or a frustrating one. Lang's protagonist is as broken as any in noir fiction, perhaps more than most, often drunk and using his girlfriend as bait to catch the killer. Lang is a daring director, that's no surprise, and he has edge. I just wish it didn't feel like the newspaper office was next door to Don Draper's. This is a very sexist film, not just because the killer is targeting young women - bosses getting fresh, the way Nancy is treated, how all the others are cheaters, etc. - and when the script decides the killer was inspired by EC's violent crime comics, well... Let's just say I hate this thing's politics and leave it at that. 5 years 4 months ago -
AndrewB
5 years 11 months agoquote:You know how much stuff is written and published for the instruction of potential lawbreakers? Take the so-called comic books. Sold to kids of all ages, in drugstores.
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This movie ranks #95 in TSPDT's 1,000 Noir Films
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