Fritz Lang's American nightmare
- Document source:
- Film Comment
- Publication date:
- 1974 Nov
- Document language:
- English
- Document type:
- article
- Number of pages:
- 6
- Source pagination:
- 12-17
- Document name subject:
- Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Val Lewton, and Erich Pommer
- Document contains:
- production co
- Related films:
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- Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The cabinet of Dr. Caligari) — Wiene, Robert — Germany — 1920
- M — Lang, Fritz — Germany — 1931
- Fury — Lang, Fritz — United States — 1936
- Double indemnity — Wilder, Billy — No country known — 1944
- The woman in the window — Lang, Fritz — United States — 1945
- Brute force — Dassin, Jules — No country known — 1947
- An American guerrilla in the Philippines — Lang, Fritz — United States — 1950
- The big heat — Lang, Fritz — United States — 1953
- Chinatown — Polanski, Roman — United States — 1974
- Film country(ies):
- Germany and United States
- Film language(s):
- English and German
- Film production company:
- Christie Corporation, Columbia Pictures, Decla-Bioscop AG, International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Nero Film, Paramount Pictures, and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Film genre(s):
- Crime, Feature, Film noir, Horror, and Thriller
- Film subject(s):
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- Authoritarianism -- Drama
- Carnivals -- Germany -- Drama
- Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Drama
- College teachers -- United States -- Drama
- Detectives -- United States -- Drama
- Dreams -- Drama
- Extortion -- United States -- Drama
- False arrest -- Drama
- Gangsters -- United States -- Drama
- Gossip -- Drama
- Hypnotism -- Drama
- Hypnotism and crime -- Drama
- Lynching -- United States -- Drama
- Mental illness -- Drama
- Mobs -- United States -- Drama
- Murder -- Drama
- Murder -- Investigation -- Germany -- Drama
- Murder -- Investigation -- United States -- Drama
- Murder -- Psychological aspects -- Drama
- Portraits -- Drama
- Revenge -- Drama
- Serial murderers -- Germany -- Drama
- Sleepwalking -- Drama
- Trials (Murder) -- United States -- Drama
- Water rights -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
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