While the City Sleeps

While the City SleepsAsk mother says the message scrawled in lipstick at a murder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story if it bleeds, it leads and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so called Lipstick Killer. Fritz Lang (The Big Heat), whose early career expressionist

her plaintive testimony tilts the jury toward acquittal

to the point of neglecting his pregnant wife (Jill Townsend - "Poldark") even as she delivers their baby

also offering a reward for whomever finds his brother

Robert Montgomery

Mister Toad and Magpie

who unselfishly helps Wilson resolve his problems - even those with his wife

Filmed with a naughty wink-wink during the Swinging Sixties

He knows how to ease his biplane into the air

who was mentally impaired in a childhood accident

Take a psychosexual journey into oblivion with James Spader and Holly Hunter in this controversial film from acclaimed director David Cronenberg

Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts deliver haunting performances

In a striking performance