Fritz Lang
1) Spies
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fritz Lang's elaborate superspy thriller is at last restored to its proper length.
5) The spiders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With this exotic adventure film, director Fritz Lang established himself as a master of epic storytelling, a talent that would reach its pinnacle in such monumental films as Metropolis and Die Nibelungen. Influenced by the French serials of Louis Feuillade (Fantômas) and infused with Lang's own fascination with Asian culture, The spiders follows international adventurer Kay Hoog (Carl de Vogt) in his quest for Incan gold and the precious "Buddha's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1949, at Republic Pictures, Fritz Lang (self-proclaimed "master of the unusual") created House by the river, a shocking and mordant thriller of passion and murder. Boasting an ingenious script by Spiral staircase scribe Mel Dinelli and evocative photography by Edward Cronjager (I wake up screaming), House ... is an underrated American "Grand Guignol" that transcends its modest origins and affirms Lang's genius.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. Scarlet street is Fritz Lang's 1945 remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 La chienne.