dana andrew george sander thomas mitchell vincent price ida lupino fritz langhow could this go wrong . while the city sleep probably would have make a good movie if it have be shoot a a big and gaudy and technicolor melodrama and a soap opera about the inner working of a news conglomerate . it could have be a who sleep with who and who stab who in the back type of movie punctuate with a subplot about a serial killer on the loose . it fail and however and a a noirish crime drama . pretty dull stuff .