Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Fritz Lang Night On TCM, Sunday November 7, 2010

And don't forget, Turner Classic Movies will be broadcasting the newly-restored print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis this weekend, along with a documentary about the restoration and two more Lang movies, Spies and M.

Here's the schedule straight from the TCM website:

8:00pm Metropolis (1927)
In this silent film, a city of the future is threatened with destruction when a wealthy corporate leader enlists a mad scientist to put down labor reformers.
Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Frolich Dir: Fritz Lang BW-149 mins

10:30pm Metropolis Refound (2010)

12:30am Spione (1928)
Cast: Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Lupu Pick Dir: Fritz Lang

3:00am M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens, Theo Lingen Dir: Fritz Lang BW-111 mins

You can read my post about M here.

2 comments:

Philip Winter said...

Hello Mythical Monkey!Congratulations for your blog!!

Metropolis:

Masterpiece!!!My favourite Fritz Lang's movie with "M".

5/5

Mythical Monkey said...

Lang is definitely one of the giants, with M, Metropolis, the Mabuse movies and then Hollywood movies such as Fury, Scarlet Street and more. We'll be returning to him again, I suspect.