According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

Lang's Dr. Mabuse films from the period also contain elements of spy thrillers, though the central character is a criminal mastermind only interested in espionage for profit.

Classics such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Dupont's Vaudeville attracted many film collectors.

There was an Expressionist style in the cinema, important examples of which are Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ), The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ), Fritz Lang's Metropolis ( 1927 ) and F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror ( 1922 ) and The Last Laugh ( 1924 ).

Thea von Harbou's marriage to Fritz Lang came in 1922 with the success of Dr. Mabuse der Spieler and the death of Lang's first wife, finally the two cemented their husband-wife partnership.

Dr. John Dunmore Lang's newspaper " The Colonialist in Sydney.

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.

On the French release, The New York Times wrote that " It is the French version of Fritz Lang's production, " Le Testament du Dr. Mabuse " (" Dr. Mabuse's Will ").

MacLane's many other film credits during the 1940s include The Big Street, Victor Fleming's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Fritz Lang's Western Union, Reginald Le Borg's The Mummy's Ghost, and Frank Borzage's The Spanish Main.

In addition, for the cinema-going public of West Germany he became the epitome of the evil genius in his role as Doctor Mabuse, a role he first played in 1960 ( following Rudolf Klein-Rogge ) in Fritz Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.

An example is Andrew Lang's fairy tale Princess Nobody ( 1884 ), illustrated by Richard Doyle, where fairies are tiny people with butterfly wings, whereas elves are tiny people with red stocking caps.

Wedding a style and story both with many noir characteristics, released the month before Lang's M, City Streets has a claim to being the first major film noir.

Hungarian émigré Peter Lorre — who had starred in Lang's M — was top-billed, though he did not play the lead.

Like The Stranger, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) was a production of the independent International Pictures.

Lang's follow-up, Scarlet Street ( 1945 ), was one of the few classic noirs to be officially censored: filled with erotic innuendo, it was temporarily banned in Milwaukee, Atlanta, and New York State.

Scarlet Street was a semi-independent — cosponsored by Universal and Lang's own Diana Productions, of which the film's costar, Joan Bennett, was the second biggest shareholder.

Lang's parents were of Moravian descent and practicing Roman Catholics.

Although some consider Lang's work to be simple melodrama, he produced a coherent oeuvre that helped to establish the characteristics of film noir, with its recurring themes of psychological conflict, paranoia, fate and moral ambiguity.

Lang's fears would be realized following his departure from Austria, as under the Nuremburg Laws he would be identified as a Jew even though his mother was a converted Roman Catholic, and he was raised as such.

These films, often compared unfavorably by contemporary critics to Lang's earlier works, have since been reevaluated as being integral to the emergence and evolution of American genre cinema, film noir in particular.

* Madonna portrayed Lang for a sequence in her 1989 music video for " Express Yourself ", complete with Lang's signature suit and monocle.

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s ; New York: Harper & Row, 1986 ; ISBN 0-06-015626-0 ( See e. g. pp. 45 – 46 for anecdotes revealing Lang's arrogance.

Stephen Lang's Hamlet for the Roundabout Theatre Company in 1992 received positive reviews, and ran for sixty-one performances.

* 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

Andrew Lang's introduction is also included.

Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902

Lang's film has enjoyed some cachet among French film critics.

The two haploid and diploid terms were borrowed from German through William Henry Lang's 1908 translation of a 1894 textbook by Eduard Strasburger and colleagues.

" Technology, Art, and the Cybernetic Body: The Cyborg As Cultural Other in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ", Amerikastudien / AmericanStudies, 44: 3, 1999, pp. 379 – 92.

This was Lang's only film in French ( not counting the French version of Testament ).

It was the first serious attempt made at restoring Metropolis to Lang's original vision, and until Kino's restoration in 2002 and 2010, it was the most complete version of the film in existence.

Fritz Lang's film Metropolis was an early special effects spectacular, with innovative use of miniatures, matte paintings, the Schüfftan process, and complex compositing.

It was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou and was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed more than a dozen films previously.

Jack Lang's victory in Reid was unexpected ; he was elected on a minority of the votes thanks to preferences given to him by the Liberal Party In federal parliament, he is often cited as being the most effective of the opposition to the government of his old rival, Prime Minister Ben Chifley, despite voting for the latter's Bank Act in 1947.

Buñuel's interest in films was intensified by a viewing of Fritz Lang's Der müde Tod: " I came out of the Vieux Colombier completely transformed.

Merecedes pilot Hermann Lang's average race speed of about was not beaten at Indianapolis Indy 500 for three decades.

It also shows how closed-unsinking was derived, using Lang's TreeMaker software for prototyping arbitrarily complex origami designs.

* March 13 – Fritz Lang's culturally influential film Metropolis premieres in Germany.

Tracy in Fritz Lang's Fury ( 1936 film ) | Fury ( 1936 ), his first major hit

In his profile for Lang featured in the same book, which prefaces the interview, Bogdanovich suggested that Lang's distaste for his own film also stemmed from the Nazi Party's fascination with the film.

In Fritz Lang's film Metropolis, Freder, the son of Joh Fredersen, the master of Metropolis, uses the term to describe the horror as he watches his fellow men devoured by their labours in the workers ' city.

Moloch is also the name of an industrial, demonic figure in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a film that Ginsberg credits with influencing " Howl, Part II " in his annotations for the poem ( see especially Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions ).

* May 29-Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.

In the 1940s, Robinson demonstrated his ability to succeed in comedic and film noir roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower ( 1941 ) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. ( 1942 ) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles ' The Stranger ( 1946 ) with Orson Welles and Loretta Young.

Shortly after Grey's death, the success of Fritz Lang's Western Union ( 1941 ), a film based on one of his books, helped bring about a resurgence in Hollywood westerns.

The melody was used throughout director Fritz Lang's 1941 film Man Hunt starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett and George Sanders.

However, when they discovered that Catharine was the daughter of Austrian actor Peter Lorre, famous for his role as a child murderer in Fritz Lang's acclaimed film M, they let her go without incident.