Fritz Lang

I was going to say he just took them all off the shelf in the same section, but that's not really how movies worked.

I felt like he didn't paint the Fritz Lang movies in a very good light in this sequence.

I certainly don't think Poeckler is painting them in a light that makes you want to go watch the movies.

Yeah, I feel like Pinchon was sort of painting them as a little bit of like a Nazi in training, but I haven't seen them, so I can't speak to that.

But I felt like he was kind of referencing them throughout the book, but it was this sequence where I started to get a more negative vibe towards Fritz Lang.

I mean, I certainly don't think...

I don't know all of the history, but I think Fritz Lang... got out of nazi germany

didn't we talk about this with mabuza

But, you know, not too excited to forget my duties as an interviewer.

Michael, I understand that you are coming over to Hollywood to star in the Diana production picture, The Secret Beyond the Door, for Fritz Lang.

Does that mean you are going to join the list of English actors and actresses who have taken permanent residence in California?

Um, no,

But about this new picture you're going to make, can you give us an idea of the story of the secret beyond the door?

Well, I'm not supposed to divulge the plot, Eskin, but...

I don't believe Fritz Lang would object to my saying that Secret Beyond the Door is a story of a man's inner thoughts.

I forget the dramatic phrase, but I suppose you'd call it thoughts of his subconscious, his soul, the

Okay, so it's my pick for the favorite next episode.

And I picked Fritz Lang's M from 1931.

So this is going to be one of the oldest things we've watched so far.

Oh

yeah, probably by a bit.

right well

the oldest we did we did the gold rush that's right so that would have been a couple years earlier but other than that I think this would be this would be the oldest but it is I mean it's Fritz Lang I've talked about a few times on here because I've I've been like making an effort to seek out more of his movies over the last year he's really become one of my favorites and Uh, and he's, I mean, he's like one of the most important directors in the history of the medium.

I mean, he was, he's making like landmark movies well back into the silent era and continued to do so into the fifties and I think early sixties.

Yeah, yeah.

so they need to make a wicker man too so there could be a wicker woman and don't spoil if there is a wicker woman don't tell me anything about that but um because i'm just curious uh okay uh so we are going to get on to our two movies and before we get started on the movies we're of course going to hear from judeen when it comes to trivia although it sounds like it's pretty limited i'm going to read these names exactly once because they are the same names for both movies with the exception of two uh but the woman in the window will be the first movie we're going to review from 1944 directed by fritz lang starring edward g robinson joan bennett raymond massey edmund brian and dan duris uh and then of course that's gonna be the same group of people with the exception of margaret lindsay and rosalind ivan will be in the scarlet uh scarlet street uh 1945. so one year apart same cast for the most part uh and let's get started with the woman in the window first janine you're gonna give us trivia but tell us uh tell us why these ones for noir

I had

recently

So let's hear this trivia.

I'm excited.

Yeah, so Fritz Lang first sought Ida Lupino for the role of Alice Reid.

I just bring this up because I just wanted to talk about Ida Lupino.

But there was another German connection to this film.

Orson Welles and his legendary cinematographer, Greg Toland, were heavily influenced by the work of German expressionist directors from the 1930s like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst.

the creative wheel turning full circle.

Here, Melvin and his guests expertly explain why this film is still regarded as a masterpiece that brooks no competition.

The man's head was preserved in formaldehyde and given to a medical school for study.

In 1931, German director Fritz Lang was inspired by Harman's story when he made a thriller called M about a man hunting Germany for a child killer.

Hans Granz survived until old age, finally dying in Hanover in 1975.

Then in 2015, the medical school in Göttingen got tired of storing the vampire of Hanover's severed head, and they had it cremated.

It's an attempt to show science that's beyond anything we can imagine.

Since Fritz Lang's Metropolis, nobody had ever attempted scale in science fiction before.

And that kind of scale was simply boggling.

You get to see these amazing miniature sets with little tiny people walking through these just vast networks of machinery that is still