November 4, 2009
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Dana Andrews, John Drew Barrymore, Mae Marsh
A city newspaper creates a competition among its staff editors to find a brutal sex murderer dubbed the lipstick killer. The impetus sends one newspaperman on a twisted hunt for the killer and his ult...( read more
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August 27, 2009While The City Sleeps was good, but difficult to follow at times. Perhaps it needs a second viewing to fully grasp the occurrences and subtleties. Don't get me wrong. This was a very enjoyable picture, but it was not as good as Fritz Lang's earlier work M.
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November 23, 2007The main character is a slimeball, although Rhonda Fleming is babely. Too many sexual overtones and simply too comedic (despite an arresting intro) for the film noir genre.
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