While the City Sleeps (1956 film)

While the City Sleeps is a 1956 film about a serial killer who been killing beautiful women in New York, and the new owner of a media company who offers a high ranking job to the 1st administrator who can get the earliest scoops on the case.
 * Directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Casey Robinson, based on the novel The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein.

Sensational LIPSTICK Murderer (taglines)

Dialogue

 * Ed Mobely: You know, you have very nice legs.
 * Nancy Liggett: Aren't you sweet.
 * Ed Mobely: Nice stockings too. What holds your stockings up?
 * Nancy Liggett: There's a lot your mother should have told you.
 * Ed Mobely: I didn't ask my mother. I asked you.


 * Ed Mobely: [as he's holding Nancy tight in her apartment's doorway] I should have a permit.
 * Nancy Liggett: To kiss me?
 * Ed Mobely: Hmm... an explorer's permit.
 * Nancy Liggett: Do explorers have to have permits?
 * Ed Mobely: They should have, especially when they're headed for uncharted territory. Forgive me angel, I know not what I say.
 * Nancy Liggett: Goodnight, drunk.


 * Ed Mobely: But I didn't do anything!
 * Lt. Burt Kaufman: You think if you're drunk, it doesn't count, huh?

Taglines

 * Suspense as startling as a strangled scream!
 * Sensational LIPSTICK Murderer
 * The story of these big-time newspaper people is more sensational than any crime they cover. It will keep you on the edge of your seat... and your nerves.
 * TEN TOP STARS! TEN PEAK PERFORMANCES!
 * They's sell out their own mothers!

Cast

 * Dana Andrews — Edward Mobley
 * Rhonda Fleming — Dorothy Kyne
 * George Sanders — Mark Loving
 * Howard Duff — Burt Kaufman
 * Thomas Mitchell — Jon Day Griffith
 * Vincent Price — Walter Kyne
 * Sally Forrest — Nancy Liggett
 * John Drew Barrymore — Robert Manners (Lipstick Killer)
 * James Craig — "Honest" Harry Kritzer
 * Ida Lupino — Mildred Donner
 * Robert Warwick — Amos Kyne
 * Mae Marsh — Mrs. Manners
 * Ralph Peters — Gerald Meade
 * Sandy White — Judith Felton
 * Larry J. Blake — Police Desk Sergeant