{"id":18900,"date":"2026-08-12T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18900"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:03:54","slug":"while-the-city-sleeps-1956-fritz-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18900","title":{"rendered":"While the City Sleeps (1956, Fritz Lang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del>Kane<\/del> Kyne Enterprises runs a sensationalist newspaper\/TV empire.  As is often the case in crime reporting movies, it&#8217;s not enough for these guys to cover the big serial killer story, they have to solve it before the cops do, in order to create new stories to cover.  Vincent Price is the spoiled kid who just inherited the company, playing power games by creating an executive director position and watching the company leaders fight for it.  In the game: big brit George Sanders, big eyebrows Thomas <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8585\">The Kid<\/a> Mitchell, and small mustache James Craig (<em>Side Street<\/em>).  Free agent Dana Andrews is a TV newsman trying to get away with his fiancee before getting pulled into all this drama.  For once the women are just as important in the story.  Rhonda Fleming is Price&#8217;s hotwife, sleeping with the small mustache guy, which somehow lands him the big job.  Ida Lupino is Sanders&#8217; gal, kissing up to Dana to coerce and\/or blackmail him into helping.  Sally Forrest (star of a couple Lupino-directed dramas) is Dana&#8217;s gal, who he puts in danger by trying to bait the killer.  All this leads to more and more inter-office drama, the news people caring less about the actual serial killer, who tries to reassert himself with some serial killings, but gets caught in a futile newspaper exclusive.  Last-minute scale-tipping rewards the (relatively) virtuous and interferes with an employee&#8217;s honeymoon, as was always happening in 1950s workaholic movies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/sleeps2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/sleeps1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Kyne Enterprises runs a sensationalist newspaper\/TV empire. As is often the case in crime reporting movies, it&#8217;s not enough for these guys to cover the big serial killer story, they have to solve it before the cops do, in order to create new stories to cover. Vincent Price is the spoiled kid who just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,5,2217,3462,1319,886],"class_list":["post-18900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-fritz-lang","tag-ida-lupino","tag-newspaper","tag-serial-killer","tag-vincent-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18920,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900\/revisions\/18920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}