Review of The Sleeping City

George Sherman built up a solid career as western director, just occasionally directed another genre like this B-Noir, the opening scene Richard Conte made an short introduction about the efforts of Bellvue hospital at New York where allowed them shot the movie almost entirely on there, the summarized plot consist in a unsolved murder of an intern under suspicious events, then Police Inspector Gordon asking permission to Hospital director to introduce a smooth uncover agent Fred Rowan (Richard Conte) who had studed medicine two years at Los Angeles and also on US's Navy as a doctor, he will work as a cover name Fred Gilbert focusing in the nurse Ann Sebastian (Coleen Gray) due she had a sort of affair with the late intern, he shares his dormitory with the bitter intern about to have nervous breakdown Dr. Anderson (Alex Nicol) who'll committed suicide later, also appears an odd figure of the old Doc Ware (Richard Taber) who work there as elevator operator however more concerning in offer to the residents countless lousy hunchs to gambling on long shot horses, somewhat the sarcastic Doc Ware weren't accepted by the interns, somehow it became a good start, thus Fred enters in the game of the odd Doc expecting for news, soon the answer came up with racketeering, he has to continue playing the odd game until reach in the Boss, engaging picture that dare to exposes corruption on the complex, whom really happen usually everywhere whatever were the hospital, touching in a neuralgic point that quite often were skipped by the authorities on charge those place as endless source of profits supplies, valuable movie!!

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First watch: 2021 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.