The Beast (1956)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | the beast |
| Original title | While the City Sleeps |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Fritz Lang |
| script | Casey Robinson |
| production | Bert Friedlob |
| music | Herschel Burke Gilbert |
| camera | Ernest Laszlo |
| cut | Gene Fowler Junior |
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The Beast is a 1956 film directed by Fritz Lang and produced by RKO Pictures . Casey Robinson wrote the screenplay . The film is based on the novel The Bloody Trail by Charles Einstein , which tells the story of the serial killer William Heirens .
action
After the death of the media leader Amos Kyne, he bequeathed his entire company to his son Walter. However, he decides not to run the company himself. He decides that whoever writes an exclusive story about the serial killer who is at work in town gets the job of managing director. A power struggle breaks out as everyone wants this job.
background
The city portrayed in the film is said to be New York , but the film was shot in Los Angeles . The trams (with stairs and pantographs for an overhead line ) of Pacific Electric in the Belmont tunnel under downtown Los Angeles were the trains of the New York subway .
Reviews
The Evangelische Film-Beobachter comes to a rather mediocre verdict : “A crime film about a psychopathic female murderer, excitingly staged, but not above average in Fritz Lang's oeuvre.” The lexicon of the international film judges even more negatively : “Cynical depictions of people and psychological Inconsistencies in an intricate crime drama that is one of Lang's weakest US films. "
Web links
- The beast in the Internet Movie Database (English)