WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS
(RKO-Radio) A Cert. HERE are a few old familiar faces in this movie, too-George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Ida Lupino, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price-and one old and renowned name among the credits-that of Fritz Lang, the director. But While the City Sleeps is not likely to reinforce anyone’s reputation. It’s a lowbudget effort and looks like it. The mounting is painfully commonplace, the writing at times sounds as if it came straight from a True Confessions magazine, and the picture it presents of life in a New York newspaper office is positively grotesque. Mitchell, Andrews, Lupino and Co. don’t just speak out of the sides of their mouths; they even seem to think out of the sides of their minds. I have rarely come across a more unattractive set of pseudo-journalists,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 15
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134WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 15
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