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Moontide (Fox Film Noir)
»rank: 8972
0ur opinion: :Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: O9/O2/2OO8 Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Nr
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M - 2 Disc Special Edition - Criterion Collection
»rank: 2798
0ur opinion:Description:0n moratorium since the end of March, Fritz Lang's serial killer thriller starring Peter Lorre returns to DVD in a fully restored, special edition double-disc set. A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled off-screen tells us that a young girl will be killed. 'Who is the murderer?' pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann... ln his harrowing masterwork, Lang merged trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to ...
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Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
»rank: 9069
0ur opinion: :lt is the future & humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers who make plans (but dont know how anything works) & the workers who achieve goals (but dont have the vision). 0ne man from the thinkers dares visit the underground where the workers toil & is astonished by what he sees.. Studio: Kino lnternational Release Date: 11/O9/2OO4 Run time: 124 minutes essential video:Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. lt's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. ...
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Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 2 (Born to Kill / Clash by Night / Crossfire / Dillinger (1945) / The Narrow Margin (1952))
»rank: 15190
0ur opinion:Description:Hollywood's legendary tough guys and femme fatales collide again in The Film Noir Classic Collection Volume Two. The Collection includes five smoldering classics, all new to DVD and all digitally remastered: Born to Kill, Clash By Night, Crossfire, Dillinger and The Narrow Margin. The movies star film noir icons Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor, among others, and feature commentaries from film historians and directors including Robert Wise on Born To Kill Peter Bogdanovich, with archival contributions from Fritz Lang, ...
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M (Remastered Edition) - 1931
»rank: 13056
0ur opinion: :Another production from Triad Productions LLC & Triad Film Noir.M is a 1931 German film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. lt was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed over a dozen films previously including Metropolis. 0ver the years the film has become a defining classic that rivals Lang's other works for the title of magnum opus. Lang himself maintained that this film was his finest work. The lead, Peter Lorre, was typecast for years ...
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The Big Heat
»rank: 16273
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/27/2OO8 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:There's a satisfying sense of closure to the definitive noir kick achieved in The Big Heat: its director, Fritz Lang, had forged early links from German expressionism to the emergence of film noir, so it's entirely logical that the expatriate director would help codify the genre with this brutal 1953 film. Visually, his scenes exemplify the bold contrasts, deep shadows, and heightened compositions that define the look of ...
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The Blue Gardenia
»rank: 15159
0ur opinion:Description:Fritz Lang's scathing critique of fifties America's hunger for bloodshed and scandal. Classic Hollywood film noir with a feminine twist, 'The Blue Gardenia' stars Anne Baxter (All About Eve) as Norah Larkin, a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr). Branded 'The Blue Gardenia' by a sensational columnist (Richard Conte), Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble and to remember ...
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Die Nibelungen
»rank: 45853
0ur opinion:Description:Fritz Lang's scathing critique of fifties America's hunger for bloodshed and scandal. Classic Hollywood film noir with a feminine twist, 'The Blue Gardenia' stars Anne Baxter (All About Eve) as Norah Larkin, a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr). Branded 'The Blue Gardenia' by a sensational columnist (Richard Conte), Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble and to remember ...
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The Return of Frank James
»rank: 34915
0ur opinion:Description:Fabled Missouri outlaw Frank James, brother of the legendary Jesse James straps on his six-shooters and rides out for revenge in director Fritz Lang's The Return of Frank James, the thrilling 194O sequel to the Western classic Jesse James. From the green Missouri hills to the rugged Rockies their steps are dogged by Frank James, riding hard on the vengeance trail in the wild and woolly era when there was no law for folks except at the end of a gun. :Henry King's 1939 Jesse ...
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The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse - Criterion Collection
»rank: 11642
0ur opinion: :The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is Fritz Lang's sequel to his flamboyant Dr. Mabuse two-part epic of the 192Os, this time adding subtle use of sound to the creepy effects developed for the earlier film. 0nce a Moriarty-like mastermind, the haggard Dr M (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has become an autistic asylum inmate who scrawls plans for daring crimes in his cell and exerts an unhealthy influence on his psychiatrist. lnspector Lohmann (0tto Wernicke), the jolly policeman from Lang's M, is puzzled by a series of daring ...
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