December 10 movie: While the City Sleeps. I recorded this because of the cast: Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Rhonda Fleming, Ida Lupino, and George Sanders. And with a cast like that, it should have been a much better movie than it was. It's a Fritz Lang movie about reporters trying to find a serial killer, but the real focus, and what should have been most interesting, is the infighting among divisions of a media empire. There are some good visuals, notably a chase in a subway tunnel and a woman doing exercises behind a screen. But wooden acting and a draggy plot sunk this movie. Plus the attitudes towards women are appalling: and appalling attitudes about women Andrews uses his fiance as bait for the serial killer without even asking her, Sanders prostitutes his girlfriend to try and get ahead at his job, and it doesn't get any better from there. I can't recommend this unless you're a Fritz Lang completist. Likewise Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, which was so much worse on all counts (wooden, draggy and hostile to women) that I couldn't stand more than a half an hour.
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