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review by from LONDON
17 December 2003
review by from London
A visionary sci-fi epic 3 May 2004
Fritz Lang - filmography
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Le Mepris - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Fritz Lang, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Widely acknowledged as a classic, LE MEPRIS is the story of Paul, a writer, and Camille, a couple in a tempestuous marriage. When Paul accepts a job to review a big screen version of Homer's Odyssey, the arguments over how the script should turn out mirror the arguments in Paul's relationship.
 
66%
from 158 members
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Tiger of Bengal / The Tomb of Love
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Walter Reyer, Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate: 
Fritz Lang (METROPOLIS) directs this adventurous double bill set in India which centres-on an exotic dancer named Seetha (Debra Paget) who is hired by Chandra (Walther Reyer), an Indian maharaja. Chandra is having problems keeping his domain in order and his subjects are on the verge of rebellion. ..read more »
67%
from 34 members
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Director: Fritz Lang
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Hoping to expose fatal flaws in the legal system, a writer (DANA ANDREWS, Laura) places a bet that he can have himself convicted of murder on purely circumstantial evidence by planting false clues at a crime scene, before sensationally revealing his trick at the last minute. However, a series of ..read more »
66%
from 99 members
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Moonfleet
(1955)
Starring: Stewart Granger, Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood
Director: Fritz Lang
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Director Fritz Lang was attracted to the British period piece Moonfleet because of the relatively unregenerate nature of its greedy hero Stewart Granger. Young Jon Whitely, who is in the legal custody of Granger, learns that he is to inherit a valuable diamond. Hoping to get his own hands on the ..read more »
57%
from 15 members
Currently unavailable
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Human Desire
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
Director: Fritz Lang
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Carl Buckley needs the intervention of his beautiful wife Vicki to keep his job, so Vicki meets with Carl's boss Owens, and secures Carl's job. Insanely jealous, Carl finds Vicki with Owens on board a train and brutally beats her and kills Owens. Jeff Warren, an off-duty engineer, protects Vicki ..read more »
67%
from 65 members
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The Blue Gardenia
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Anne Sothern
Director: Fritz Lang
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In the first of Fritz Lang's trio of newspaper films, Norah, a telephone operator, suspects that she may have committed a murder but is unable to remember. After receiving a "Dear Jane" letter from her boyfriend in the Korean War, Norah impetuously accepts a blind date with lecherous artist, Harry ..read more »
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from 176 members
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Rancho Notorious
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
Director: Fritz Lang
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by Ken Darby) which unifies the plotline, à la High Noon. Frontiersman Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) wanders throughout the West in search of the man who robbed and murdered his fiancé..read more »
62%
from 206 members
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Secret Beyond The Door
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Joan Bennett
Director: Fritz Lang
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In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. However, there she finds her dream man -- a handsome, mysterious stranger who spots her in a crowd. In a matter ..read more »
63%
from 98 members
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Scarlet Street
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Margaret Lindsay
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then to murder. Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to a nagging wife. Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. Cross meets Kitty (Joan Bennett) ..read more »
69%
from 759 members
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Cloak and Dagger
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda
Director: Fritz Lang
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In Fritz Lang's compelling World War II espionage thriller CLOAK AND DAGGER, Gary Cooper stars as Alvah Jasper, a shy and retiring physics professor at a midwestern university. When government agents press Jasper into joining them in an effort to curtail the Nazis' efforts to attain atomic secrets, ..read more »
63%
from 99 members
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Ministry Of Fear
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Director: Fritz Lang
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Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane on the outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know who to turn to.
67%
from 365 members
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Hangmen Also Die
(1943)
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Dennis O'Keefe
Director: Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang, one of the masters of the German expressionist cinema, turns his sinister imagination and shadowy techniques to a web like take of wartime espionage in Hangmen Also Die.
Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, the film depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors ..read more »
64%
from 183 members
Not currently released
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Western Union
(1941)
Starring: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger
Director: Fritz Lang
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While Vance Shaw gives up outlawing to go to work for the telegraph company, his brother Jack Slade leads outlaws trying to prevent the company connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City.
59%
from 162 members
Not currently released
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Man Hunt
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Director: Fritz Lang
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Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria, willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat, eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. ..read more »
63%
from 69 members
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The Return Of Frank James
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper
Director: Fritz Lang
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's JESSE JAMES does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after all was shot dead by 'that dirty little coward' Bob Ford (John Carradine). Repeating his portrayal of western outlaw Frank James, Henry Fonda is promoted to top billing here. ..read more »
64%
from 37 members
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You Only Live Once
(1937)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane
Director: Fritz Lang
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Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney play ill-fated lovers in Fritz Lang's fatalistic psychological thriller, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE. The film opens as Joan (Sidney), a secretary in the public defender's office, excitedly awaits the release of her thrice-convicted criminal lover Eddie (Fonda). The two try to ..read more »
64%
from 385 members
Not currently released
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Fury
(1936)
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, George Walcott
Director: Fritz Lang
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When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
82%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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The Testament Of Dr Mabuse
(1933)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl
Director: Fritz Lang
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The tenuous and terrified atmosphere of Germany on the eve of Nazi ascendancy is cleverly evoked in Fritz Lang's THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE. The film opens with former police officer Hofmeister frantically warning police inspector Lohman of a mysterious gang's activity. He is especially insistent ..read more »
74%
from 840 members
Currently unavailable
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M
on DVD
(1931)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
Director: Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer ..read more »
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from 4,729 members
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M - Blu-ray
(1931)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut
Director: Fritz Lang
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In Fritz Lang's startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in post-Weimar Germany during the infancy of the Nazi state, this tale ..read more »
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from 574 members
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Frau im Mond
on DVD
(1929)
Starring: Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim
Director: Fritz Lang
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In this, Lang's final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite's vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold. When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus, ..read more »
69%
from 256 members
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Spione
on DVD
(1928)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge
Director: Fritz Lang
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SPIONE (or SPIES as it translates in English)) was the first independent production of German thriller director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time plotline involves Russian espionage activity in London. The mastermind is Haghi (Rudolph Klein-Rogge), a supposedly respectable carnival sideshow ..read more »
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from 346 members
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Metropolis
(2 discs)
(1927)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
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Set around the year 2000, a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and, on the surface, appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living in palatial apartments set in colossal glass and concrete spires. But underground it's a different ..read more »
68%
from 7,455 members
Currently unavailable
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Metropolis - Blu-ray
(1927)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
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Set around the year 2000, a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and, on the surface, appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living in palatial apartments set in colossal glass and concrete spires. But underground it's a different ..read more »
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from 394 members
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Doctor Mabuse - The Gambler
(2 discs)
(1922)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Lil Dagover
Director: Fritz Lang
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Includes both parts of Fritz Lang's Masterpiece! PART 1: Fritz Lang deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first episode of his masterpiece, DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER, PART I. Using special effects, extremely complex editing, ..read more »
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from 941 members
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...Fritz Lang is, of course, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. ?Metropolis? alone is enough to place him in a poetic pantheon of creators ? his other expressionis...
