While the City Sleeps (1956) ( News Is Made at Night )

While the City Sleeps (1956) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: News Is Made at Night
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Fritz Lang

Written By:
Casey Robinson
Charles Einstein

Actors:
Dana Andrews ..... Edward Mobley
Rhonda Fleming ..... Dorothy Kyne
George Sanders ..... Mark Loving, KNS Chief
Howard Duff ..... Lt. Burt Kaufman
Thomas Mitchell ..... John Day Griffith (Sentinel managing editor)
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 (Sentinel crime reporter)
Sandy White ..... Judith Felton
Larry J. Blake ..... Tim, Police Desk Sergeant

Synopsis:

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.

After the elderly Amos Kyne dies, his arrogant son Walter takes over the family news empire. He decides he wants to appoint an executive director to help him out. Not knowing which of his three senior executives - representing their wire service, daily newspapers and TV news - to select, he tells them that one who gets the scoop on a string of sex murders will get the job. TV newsman Ed Mobley hopes the the newspaper editor, Jon Day Griffith, will get the job and so sets out to help him find the killer. With information from his police contact, he challenges the killer on air putting himself and his fiancée in danger.

A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York, and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the 1st administrator who can get the earliest scoops on the case.

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