- Title Pages
- Praise forFritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue 1976
- Chapter 1 1890–1911
- Chapter 2 1911–1918
- Chapter 3 1918–1921
- Chapter 4 1921–1922
- Chapter 5 1923–1924
- Chapter 6 1925–1927
- Chapter 7 1928–1929
- Chapter 8 1930–1931
- Chapter 9 1932–1933
- Chapter 10 1933–1934
- Chapter11 1934–1936
- Chapter 12 1936–1938
- Chapter 13 1939–1941
- Chapter 14 1941–1945
- Chapter 15 1945–1946
- Chapter 16 1946–1947
- Chapter 17 1948–1952
- Chapter18 1952–1953
- Chapter 19 1953–1956
- Chapter 20 1957–1964
- Chapter 21 1965–1976
- Filmography
- Notes and Sources
- Index
- Plates
1976
1976
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Prologue 1976
- Source:
- Fritz Lang
- Author(s):
Patrick McGilligan
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter focuses on Fritz Lang’s final years. Directing his last motion picture in 1960, for the next sixteen years Lang lived like a ghost in his Summit Ridge house, on a hill high above Hollywood. Lang liked to sit in the living room of his home in his favorite chair, an inch or two away from the television set, holding up to the screen an enlarging magnifying glass due to his failing eyesight. Retirement also rewarded him with ample time to reflect on the roller-coaster ups and downs of his life and career, to ponder his errors, to repent for his sins. Musing on his mistakes, Lang, a lapsed Catholic, could not exclude the possibility that there might be a heaven and a God after all.
Keywords: Fritz Lang, biography, film directors, filmmakers, retirement
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- Title Pages
- Praise forFritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue 1976
- Chapter 1 1890–1911
- Chapter 2 1911–1918
- Chapter 3 1918–1921
- Chapter 4 1921–1922
- Chapter 5 1923–1924
- Chapter 6 1925–1927
- Chapter 7 1928–1929
- Chapter 8 1930–1931
- Chapter 9 1932–1933
- Chapter 10 1933–1934
- Chapter11 1934–1936
- Chapter 12 1936–1938
- Chapter 13 1939–1941
- Chapter 14 1941–1945
- Chapter 15 1945–1946
- Chapter 16 1946–1947
- Chapter 17 1948–1952
- Chapter18 1952–1953
- Chapter 19 1953–1956
- Chapter 20 1957–1964
- Chapter 21 1965–1976
- Filmography
- Notes and Sources
- Index
- Plates