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While the City Sleeps

USA 1955/1956 Spielfilm

Credits

Director

  • Fritz Lang

Screenplay

  • Casey Robinson

Director of photography

  • Ernest Laszlo

Editing

  • Gene Fowler Jr.

Music

  • Herschel Burke

Cast

  • Dana Andrews
    Edward Mobley
  • Rhonda Fleming
    Dorothy Kyne
  • George Sanders
    Mark Loving
  • Howard Duff
    Leutnant Burt Kaufman
  • Thomas Mitchell
    Jon Day Griffith
  • Vincent Price
    Walter Kyne
  • Sally Forrest
    Nancy Liggett
  • John Drew Barrymore
    Robert Manners
  • James Craig
    'Honest' Harry Kritzer
  • Ida Lupino
    Mildred Donner

Production company

  • Bert E. Friedlob Productions (US)

Producer

  • Bert E. Friedlob

Alle Credits

Director

  • Fritz Lang

Assistant director

  • Ronnie Rondell

Script supervisor

  • Jo Franklin
  • Violet McComas

Screenplay

  • Casey Robinson

based on

  • Charles Einstein (Roman "The Bloody Spur")
  • Henry Wadsworth (Gedicht)

Director of photography

  • Ernest Laszlo

Production design

  • Carroll Clark

Set design

  • Jack Mills

Make-up artist

  • Gustaf Norin

Costume design

  • Robert Martien
  • Jackie Spitzer (Norma)

Hairdresser

  • Cherie Banks

Editing

  • Gene Fowler Jr.

Sound editor

  • Verna Fields

Sound

  • Jack Solomon
  • Buddy Myers

Consultant

  • Mike Kaplan (Technische Beratung)

Music

  • Herschel Burke

Arrangement

  • Alfred Perry (Montage)

Music (other)

  • Joseph Mullendore (Orchestrierung)
  • Walter Sheets (Orchestrierung)

Cast

  • Dana Andrews
    Edward Mobley
  • Rhonda Fleming
    Dorothy Kyne
  • George Sanders
    Mark Loving
  • Howard Duff
    Leutnant Burt Kaufman
  • Thomas Mitchell
    Jon Day Griffith
  • Vincent Price
    Walter Kyne
  • Sally Forrest
    Nancy Liggett
  • John Drew Barrymore
    Robert Manners
  • James Craig
    'Honest' Harry Kritzer
  • Ida Lupino
    Mildred Donner

Production company

  • Bert E. Friedlob Productions (US)

Commissioned by

  • RKO Radio Pictures (Los Angeles/New York)

Producer

  • Bert E. Friedlob

Unit production manager

  • George Yahalem

Production assistant

  • Leo Taub

Shoot

    • Juli 1955 - August 1955 [35 Tage]
Duration:
100 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,00
Video/Audio:
s/w, Western Electric Recording
Censorship/Age rating:

Prüfung: 06.05.1956

Screening:

Voraufführung (US): 26.04.1956, Los Angeles, RKO Studio;
Uraufführung (US): 30.05.1956, New York City, Criterion

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (US) While the City Sleeps
  • Verleihtitel (DE) Die Bestie

Versions

Original

Duration:
100 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,00
Video/Audio:
s/w, Western Electric Recording
Censorship/Age rating:

Prüfung: 06.05.1956

Screening:

Voraufführung (US): 26.04.1956, Los Angeles, RKO Studio;
Uraufführung (US): 30.05.1956, New York City, Criterion

Verleihfassung

Weiterer Titel (DE)
  • Verleihtitel (DE)
  • Die Bestie
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 19.07.1956, 12537-R, ab 16 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei;
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.11.1956, 12537-R, ab 16 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Erstaufführung (DE): 28.12.1956;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 18.04.1970, ARD

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