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.

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.

As in Lang's Scarlet Street, released a year later, Edward G. Robinson plays the lonely middle-aged man and Duryea and Bennett co-star as the criminal elements.

Lindsay appeared in a supporting role in the 1942 film, The Spoilers, starring John Wayne, and in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street in 1945.

She had a memorable role as the nagging wife of a bank teller ( Edward G. Robinson ) in Fritz Lang's film Scarlet Street ( 1945 ).

An American Tragedy, City Streets and Street Scene ( all 1931 ), Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage and Fritz Lang's Fury ( both 1936 ), You Only Live Once, Dead End ( both 1937 ) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine an early three-strip Technicolor film.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Other anecdotes involve Lang's insistence on using real fire for the climatic scene where the false Maria is burnt at the stake ( which resulted in Helm's dress catching fire ), and his ordering extras to throw themselves towards powerful jets of water when filming the flooding of the worker's city.

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 ).

During the filming of Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door ( 1948 ), Redgrave met Bob Michell.

Crawford's Academy Award and larger-than-life persona eventually won him more diverse roles, and he would appear in such varied films as Phil Karlson's Scandal Sheet ( 1952 ), Fritz Lang's Human Desire ( 1954 ), Federico Fellini's Il bidone ( 1955 ) and Richard Fleischer's Between Heaven and Hell ( 1956 ).

Lang's compositions, based on the Red Hot Jazz database, included " Wild Cat " with Joe Venuti, " Perfect " with Frank Signorelli, " April Kisses " ( 1927 ), " Sunshine ", " Melody Man's Dream ", " Goin ' Places ", " Black and Blue Bottom ", " Bull Frog Moan ", " Rainbow Dreams ", " Feelin ' My Way ", " Eddie's Twister ", " Really Blue ", " Penn Beach Blues ", " Wild Dog ", " Pretty Trix ", " A Mug of Ale ", " Apple Blossoms ", " Beating the Dog ", " To To Blues ", " Running Ragged ", " Kicking the Cat ", " Cheese and Crackers ", " Doin ' Things ", " Blue Guitars ", " Guitar Blues " with Lonnie Johnson, " Hot Fingers ", " Have to Change Keys to Play These Blues ", " A Handful of Riffs ", " Blue Room ", " Deep Minor Rhythm Stomp ", " Two-Tone Stomp ".

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.

One of the earliest spy films was Fritz Lang's Spies ( 1928 ), the director's first independent production, with an anarchist international conspirator and criminal spy character named Haghi ( Rudolf Klein-Rogge ), who was pursued by good-guy Agent No. 326 ( Willy Fritsch ) ( aka Det.

Spy films of the ' 40s included Fritz Lang's atmospheric post-war spy melodrama Cloak and Dagger ( 1946 ), with Gary Cooper starring as atomic scientist and physics professor Alvah Jasper ( a character based upon A-bomb co-developer J. Robert Oppenheimer ), on a mission to discover Germany's secret plans to build an A bomb.

During this time, the court did decide several important cases, including Attorney-General ( New South Wales ) v Trethowan ( 1931 ), which considered Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang's attempt to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council, and the First State Garnishee case ( 1932 ), which upheld federal legislation compelling the Lang government to repay its loans.

Other memorable roles included the scheming Irene Nieves in Sudden Fear ( 1952 ), the femme fatale Vicki Buckley in Human Desire ( 1953 ), and mob moll Debby Marsh in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat ( 1953 ) in which, in a horrifying off-screen scene, she is scarred by hot coffee thrown in her face by Lee Marvin's character.

Lang's first credit was a movie called Skatetown, U. S. A. ( 1979 ), with Scott Baio, Maureen McCormick and Patrick Swayze.

In Superman: The Doomsday War ( 1998 ), Doomsday's mind is under the influence of Brainiac, forcing Superman to fight two of his most powerful enemies at once in order to rescue Lana Lang's newborn child, Doomsday easily defeating the current Justice League before Superman is able to force Brainiac's mind out of Doomsday and trap him in four teleporters locked in a perpetual loop to prevent him being integrated enough to think of a way to escape.

He starred with Spencer Tracy, playing the leader of a lynch mob in Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury ( 1936 ), and with Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz's epic Western Dodge City, which became one of Warner Bros .' s biggest hits.

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

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.

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

Lang's Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ( 1922 ) was a hugely popular film when it was released.

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.

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

The screenplay itself went through many re-writes, and at one point featured an ending where Freder would have flown to the stars ; this plot element later became the basis for Lang's Woman in the Moon.

Thea von Harbou was an incredibly active player in producing Metropolis, and this epic film became not only one of Fritz Lang's best known films, but one of significance to German cinema.

Thea von Harbou's decision to remain loyal to Germany during the rise of the NSDAP ( Nazi Party ) became one of the reasons for Lang's divorce.

" Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune said it was " one of the ten best films of the year ... combines Fritz Lang's sense of predetermination with the freshness of John Cassavetes.

Critics have compared the quality of The Big Combo to Fritz Lang's The Big Heat as one of the great film noir detective classics in terms of style.

It's not one of Lang's great pictures ( it becomes too heavy-handed in parts ), but anything Lang does has a power that is hard to forget.