On 21st August 2013, I completed watching a majority of Fritz Lang’s Films.
For my records I wanted to capture a brief of all
the movies that I saw:
1919_Harakiri (Madame Butterly): is a silent film
directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. It was one of
the first Japanese-themed films depicting Japanese
culture.
1921_Der Mude Tod (Destiny) : rich in special
effects, is structured as a frame tale with
three stories within the story
1921_Die vier um die Frau (The Four around the Woman):
the film tells the story of a woman (Carola Toelle) who
was found by her husband tied up on their wedding night.
It looked like a thief did it but years later a
blackmailer comes forward with the truth so the
husband plants a trap to try and find out if his
wife has been seeing another man.
1922_Dr Mabuse - Die Spieler : the first film in
the Dr. Mabuse series, about the character Doctor
Mabuse who featured in the novels of Norbert
Jacques. Der Spieler means the player in German,
and can be translated as the gambler, the actor,
or the puppeteer. Dr. Mabuse, who disguises, plays
with emotions and tricks other people, is probably
all of them in some sense.
1924_Die Nibelungen_(Siegfried & Kriemhilds Rache):
is a series of two silent fantasy films :
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge.
1928_Spione (Spies) : a German silent espionage thriller.
Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou, worked as a co-writer.
The film was Lang's penultimate silent film,
and the first for his own production company;
Fritz Lang-film GmbH.[1] As in Lang's Mabuse films,
such as Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler and The Testament
of Dr. Mabuse, Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays a master
criminal aiming for world domination
1929_Frau im Mond {Woman In the Moon} : a science
fiction silent film . It is often considered to
be one of the first "serious" science fiction films.
It was written and directed by Fritz Lang, based
on the novel Die Frau im Mond (1928, translated
as The Woman to the Moon in 1930) by his then-wife
and collaborator Thea von Harbou. The basics of
rocket travel were presented to a mass audience
for the first time by this film, including the ]
use of a multi-stage rocket.
1931_M : is a German drama-thriller film directed
by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre. It was
written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou and
was Lang's first sound film.
1933_The Testament Of Dr Mabuse : is a 1933 German
crime film. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent
film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) and features
many cast and crew members from Lang's previous
films. When Adolf Hitler rose to power, Joseph
Goebbels became Minister of Propaganda and banned
the film in Germany, suggesting that the film
would decrease the audience's confidence in its
statesmen
1934_Liliom: is a 1934 French fantasy film based
on the Hungarian stage play of the same name by
Ferenc Molnár.
1936_Fury: is a 1936 American drama film which
tells the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy)
who narrowly escapes being lynched and the revenge
he seeks.
1937_You Only Live Once: is a crime drama film
starring Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda. Considered
an early film noir, the film was the second directed
by Fritz Lang in America
1938_You And Me: Sylvia Sidney and George Raft
play a pair of criminals on parole and working
in a department store full of similar cases;
Harry Carey's character routinely hires ex-convicts
to staff his store
1940_The Return Of Frank James : is a western
film starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney.
It is a sequel to Henry King's 1939 film Jesse
James. Written by Sam Hellman, the film loosely
follows the life of Frank James following the
death of his outlaw brother, Jesse James at the
hands of the Ford brothers
1941_Man Hunt: an Hunt is a American thriller
film starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett.
It is based on the 1939 novel Rogue Male by Geoffrey
Household and is set just prior to the Second World War.
1941_Western Union : American Western film starring
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, and Dean Jagger.
Western Union is about a reformed outlaw who tries
to make good by joining the team wiring the Great
Plains for telegraph service in 1861. Conflicts
arise between the man and his former gang, as well
as between the team stringing the wires and the
Native Americans through whose land the new lines
must run.
1942_Moontide : American drama film noir directed
by Archie Mayo and Fritz Lang, although Lang was
uncredited when the film was released. The film
tells about a man who fears he has committed a
murder when he was drunk.
1943_Hangman Also Die! : is a 1943 noir war film.
The film is loosely based on the 1942 assassination
of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi Reich Protector of
German-occupied Prague, number-two man in the SS,
and a chief architect of the Holocaust, who was
known as "The Hangman of Prague." The real Heydrich
was assassinated by Czech resistance fighters
parachuted from a British plane in Operation Anthropoid,
but in the movie, which was made during World War II
before the full story had become public knowledge,
Heydrich's killer is depicted as a member of the Czech
resistance with ties to the Communist Party.
1944_Ministry Of Fear: is a 1944 film noir. Based on
a novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of
a man just released from a mental asylum who finds
himself caught up in an international spy ring and
pursued by foreign agents after inadvertently
receiving something they want
1944_The Woman In the Window: is a 1944 film noir
that tells the story of psychology professor Richard
Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) who meets and becomes
enamored of a young femme fatale.
1945_Scarlet Street : is a 1945 American film noir
starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea.
1946_Cloak And Dagger : is a 1946 film starring Gary Cooper.
It is a tribute to Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
operations in occupied Europe during World War II
1952_Clash By Night: is a 1952 black-and-white drama
with some film noir aspects, starring Barbara Stanwyck,
Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes.
This was the first film in which Monroe was credited
before the movie's title
1947_Secret Beyond The Door: is a 1948 psychological
thriller and modern updating of the Bluebeard fairytale.
The film starred Joan Bennett and was produced by her
husband Walter Wanger. The black-and-white film noir
drama is about a woman who suspects her new husband,
an architect, plans to kill her.
1950_House By The River : is a 1950 Gothic film noir
starring Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman,
and Dorothy Patrick
1952_Rancho Notorious: is a 1952 Western film shot
in Technicolor, starring Marlene Dietrich as the
matron of a criminal hideout called Chuck-a-Luck.
Arthur Kennedy and Mel Ferrer play rivals for
her attention in this tale of frontier revenge
1953_The Big Heat: is a 1953 film noir starring
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin.
It is about a cop who takes on the crime
syndicate that controls his city after the
brutal murder of his beloved wife
1953_The Blue Gardenia: is a 1953 black-and-white
film noir based on a story by Vera Caspary.
The first of Lang's "newspaper noir" movie
trio—with While the City Sleeps and Beyond
a Reasonable Doubt (both 1956) -- The Blue
Gardenia criticizes newspaper coverage of
a sensational murder case.Nat King Cole
sings the title song and appears in the movie.
1954_Human Desire: is a 1954 black-and-white
film noir based on the novel La Bête humaine
by Émile Zola. The story was filmed twice before:
La Bête humaine (1938) directed by Jean Renoir
and Die Bestie im Menschen (1920).
1955_Moonfleet: is a 1955 gothic melodrama set
in Britain during the eighteenth century, the
film is about John Mohune, a young orphan,
played by Jon Whiteley, who is sent to the
Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with his
mother's former lover, Jeremy Fox. Fox, played
by Stewart Granger, is a morally ambiguous
character, an elegant gentleman intimately
involved with smugglers.[3] On the run from
the law, Mohune and Fox must decipher a coded
message in their pursuit of a fabulous diamond
hidden long ago.
1956_Beyond A Reasonable Doubt:. is a 1956
film noir and stars Dana Andrews, Joan
Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, and Arthur Franz,
and was the last American film directed by Lang
1959_Das Indische Grabnal (The Indian Tomb) :
is a 1959 West German-French-Italian adventure
film. It is the first of two films comprising
what has come to be known as Fritz Lang's
Indian Epic; the other is The Indian Tomb
(Das Indische Grabmal). Fritz Lang returned
to Germany to direct these films, which
together tell the story of a German architect,
the Indian maharaja for whom he is supposed
to build schools and hospitals, and the
Eurasian dancer who comes between them.
1959_Der Tiger von Eschnapur (The Tiger Of Eschnapur):
aka. Journey to the Lost City, is a 1959
German-French-Italian adventure drama film.
It is the second of two films; the other is
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Der Tiger von Eschnapur)
1960_The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Mabuse :is a 1960
black-and-white crime film/thriller made
in West Germany. It was a West German/French/Italian
co-production and the last film directed by Fritz Lang.
It starred Peter van Eyck, Dawn Addams and Gert Fröbe.
The film made use of the character Dr. Mabuse, who had
appeared in earlier films by Lang back in 1922 and 1933.
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse spawned a series of
German "Mabuse"-films that were released over the
following years.
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