- 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
1928–1929
1928–1929
- Chapter:
- (p.134) Chapter 7 1928–1929
- Source:
- Fritz Lang
- Author(s):
Patrick McGilligan
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter describes the making of Lang and Thea von Harbou’s next film project after Metropolis, a spy thriller called Spione (Spies). Production began in December of 1927 and lasted for fifteen weeks, until March of 1928. Critics were divided over Spione when it was released in March 1928. The socialist Film und Volk labeled Lang’s newest film “a load of garbage ... despite the flashy and extravagant effects, deathly dull,” while others found the film, after the pinnacle of Metropolis, enormously entertaining yet somehow anticlimatic. Lang also completed Die Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon) about rocket travel. The disappointing box-office returns for Die Frau im Mond contributed to the final breakdown of Lang’s relations with film company Ufa.
Keywords: Fritz Lang, biography, directors, Spione, Die Frau im Mond, spy thrillers, rocket travel
Minnesota Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
- 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
