While the City Sleeps (1956)
"Suspense as startling as a strangled scream!"
ThumbScore
👍 79%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 91%
(RT: 91%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Rhonda Fleming as Dorothy Kyne
Howard Duff as Lt. Burt Kaufman
Sally Forrest as Nancy Liggett
John Drew Barrymore as Robert Manners
Is While the City Sleeps good?
Most people think so. 79% audience score, estimated from 153 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 91%.
Overview
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer". Wikipedia ↗
