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Lowest Rated: 57% House by the River (1950) Birthday: Dec 5, 1890. Birthplace: Vienna, Austria-Hungary. A dark visionary whose meditations on human loneliness were punctuated by a stark visual ...
Fritz Lang filmography. Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days. [1] Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively.
Fritz Lang died on the 2nd of August, 1976, aged 85, in Beverly Hills, California, and was interred at the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. As the creator of the film noir genre, and a key figure in the history of the Expressionist movement, he is guaranteed a place in the cinematic pantheon, and his legacy is truly immense.
Fritz Lang - German Expressionism, Film Noir, Metropolis: Lang made one film while in France, Liliom (1934), and then accepted David O. Selznick’s offer to make a motion picture in Hollywood for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., (MGM). That film, Fury (1936), which starred Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney, was a powerful, unforgiving study of mob violence but met with only moderate box-office ...
Lang made his last two silent films, "Spies" (1928) and "Woman in the Moon" (1929), before making the remarkable transition to sound with "M" (1931), a powerful study of a child serial killer (Peter Lorre) pursued by both police and the criminal underworld.
Fritz Lang directed more than thirty films in his illustrious career. His work from the classic Film Noir period included Ministry of Fear (1944) , Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953). Peter Lorre starred in over sixty films during a career that lasted nearly three decades, including classic Noirs like The Maltese Falcon (1941 ...
