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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 - Film Noir, Expressionism, Metropolis: House by the River (1950), an atmospheric Southern Gothic melodrama made for Poverty Row studio Republic Pictures, was followed by American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950), a rousing if conventional World War II adventure starring Tyrone Power as a stranded U.S. Navy officer leading native Filipinos in their fight against superior Japanese ...
M: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke. When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
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Lang’s first wife, Lisa Rosenthal, committed suicide under mysterious circumstances in 1920.) Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou in their Berlin apartment in the 1920s. PHOTO: Waldemar Titzenthaler. Following Metropolis, the Lang-von Harbou team went on to make another science-fiction movie for Ufa in 1929.
Aug 4, 2020 · At 76, he is a man for all seasons. To a growing number of cinephiles, Fritz Lang, who stumbled into films in 1916 and became the towering name of Germany’s haunting but brief Golden Era, is a many-splendoured figure of cinema history and, perhaps more important, of its rewrites. This Viennese, who still sports the junker’s insolent monocle ...
Novelist; screenwriter. Married August 1922, divorced 1933; co-wrote Lang's films 1920-33; first husband was Rudolph Klein-Rogge, actor who played title role in the silent Mabuse films and in such other Lang efforts as "Metropolis" (1926) and "Spies" (1928). Writer. Survived him.
Scarlet Street: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay. A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
