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Fritz Lang directing Woman in the Moon (1929) Metropolis Fritz Lang: M Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh sits at a bar in a fur stole, looking up at Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion, who stands in a trench coat and fedora in The Big Heat (1953). Sheppard Strudwick, seated at left, and Dana Andrews, center, in a courtroom scene from Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), with a large film camera and other men in the background. The great Spencer Tracy Black-and-white scene from Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, showing people fleeing through waist-deep water in a flooded industrial setting with a large circular machine in the background. Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm as the robot Maria, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge stand in a dramatic scene from Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, with a large pentagram in the background. scene from The Woman in the Window Brigitte Helm as Maria stands at the center of a group of children, who gather closely around her, in a scene from the 1927 film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang.
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Fritz Lang directing Woman in the Moon (1929)
Fritz Lang directing Woman in the Moon (1929) Although it took Fritz Lang some 21 years to make 22 Hollywood films, arguably at least half of them are noirish masterpieces of menace. His time in Hollywood, which began in 1934, followed a directing career in Germany during the 1920s that included several landmark films.

Fritz Lang

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Fritz Lang (born December 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died August 2, 1976, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films, dealing with fate and people’s inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense. Lang had already created an impressive body of work in the German cinema before coming to the United States in 1934. Although it took him some 21 years to fashion 22 Hollywood...

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