Apr 19, 1956
100 min
Full-HD

While the City Sleeps (1956)

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Category

Thriller Drama

Country

United States of America

Companies

Bert E. Friedlob Productions

Dana Andrews

Edward Mobley

Rhonda Fleming

Dorothy Kyne

George Sanders

Mark Loving

Howard Duff

Lt. Burt Kaufman

Thomas Mitchell

John Day Griffith

Vincent Price

Walter Kyne

Sally Forrest

Nancy Liggett

John Drew Barrymore

Robert Manners

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