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1956
While the City Sleeps is a 1956 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, John Drew Barrymore and Ida Lupino. Written by Casey Robinson, the newspaper drama was based on The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein, which was inspired by the case of Chicago serial killer William Heirens. Five decades after the film's…
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Thanks to his classical masterpiece *M*, made in 1931, German director Fritz Lang was often referenced as one of the first filmmakers to use the now‑very‑popular motif of serial killers. A quarter of a century later, during his final years in Hollywood, Lang also used that motif, but in a somewhat unusual genre context. *While the City Sleeps*, his 1956 film, deals with the phenomenon of a psychopathic serial killer…More