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Tag Archives: Fritz Lang
Ministry of Fear (1944) Fritz Lang, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. Read More »
Spies AKA Spione (1928) Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch
Haghi is a criminal mastermind whose ubiquitous spy operation is always several steps ahead of the police and the government’s secret service. Read More »
Moonfleet (1955) Fritz Lang, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet Read More »
The Indian Tomb AKA Das indische Grabmal (1959) Fritz Lang, Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer
Harald Berger and his Indian lover, the temple dancer Seetha, desperately flee from the shikaris (cavalry) of Eschanapur’s maharajah Chandra Read More »
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (1920) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation “Die Spinnen” to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia Read More »
The Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake (1919) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John
In San Francisco, the sportsman Kay Hoog tells to the members of a club that he has found a message Read More »
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) Fritz Lang, Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell
In the spring of 1942, following the blockade run that took General Douglas MacArthur Read More »
Scarlet Street (1945) Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. Read More »
Journey to the Lost City (1960) Fritz Lang, Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer
An architect travels to the remote city of Eschnapur to oversee some work being done at the bequest of the local Maharajah. Read More »
House by the River (1950) Fritz Lang, Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt
The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. Read More »
Cloak and Dagger (1946) Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer
Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. Read More »
Clash by Night (1952) Fritz Lang, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas
The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York. Read More »
Liliom (1934) Fritz Lang, Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a “public figure,” a rascal who’s a carousel barker Read More »
Destiny (1921) Fritz Lang, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. Read More »