Fritz Lang

       Fritz Lang is one of the greatest directors of all time.  He was dubbed "The Master of Darkness" early on in his career.  An apt appelation for the man who gave us the "Dr. Mabuse "series, "Metropolis " and "M" among many, many others, some when he worked in Austria and some when he worked in Hollywood.  He also wrote most of the films he directed and produced many of them.  Perhaps his most memorable film was "Metropolis" a film of the expressionist school that concerned the modern world, capitalism and how humans are simply not well adjusted to such a world (or shouldn't be).  Several of his films concerned the plight of the human being in society.  "M" starring a Lang favorite, Peter Lorre,  is about a man, a serial killer, who did his time and is now free, and how the community reacts to him and a rumor that sprang from nowhere that this man is a pedophile.  He was tried in a Kangaroo court for that alleged offense.  The film ends with his court trial.  You don't know what the verdict or the sentence was.  The film is about mob hysteria.

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