At the end of his career, Fritz Lang returned to Germany and a producer who gave him a big budget to remake a silent classic in color, with an international cast and locations in remote India, including a palace never seen in a movie before. The two-movie, 200-minute epic was chopped in half for America and dubbed in English. Seen in its full Eastmancolor glory, The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb form an old-fashioned storybook tale, with its special charm lying in our knowledge of Fritz Lang’s fixation on fatalism and intricate patterns of betrayal and intrigue. Plus the films contain the erotic highlight of the decade, the spectacle of star Debra Paget’s scorching ‘temple dances’ before an all-male audience of admirers.
Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
The Tiger of Eschnapur
and The Indian Tomb
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1959 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 203 min. / Street...
Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
The Tiger of Eschnapur
and The Indian Tomb
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1959 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 203 min. / Street...
- 12/3/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
An exploitation picture staple was the cutdown feature version of the 12-chapter serial, but they were seldom directed by filmmakers as distinguished as Fritz Lang, who fled Hitler to become a Hollywood success. But in 1960 Aip bought two elaborate 1957 German-made Lang adventures and combined them into one hectic movie.
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- 10/25/2019
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Rumble Fish
Blu-ray
Criterion
1940 / B&W / 1:85 / Street Date April 25, 2017
Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane.
Cinematography: Stephen Burum
Film Editor: Barry Malkin
Written by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s Young Adult tone poem, unspools in a black and white never-never land of sullen teens, pool tables and pompadours. It may take a moment for the audience to suss out that we’re not in the Eisenhower era with Chuck Berry, Marilyn Monroe and the Cold War but squarely in Reagan’s domain of MTV, Madonna and the Cold War.
Set in a destitute Oklahoma town with the ghost of The Last Picture Show whistling through its empty streets, Matt Dillon plays Rusty, an inveterate gang-banger growing up in the shadow of his older brother played by Mickey Rourke, a reformed juvenile...
Blu-ray
Criterion
1940 / B&W / 1:85 / Street Date April 25, 2017
Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane.
Cinematography: Stephen Burum
Film Editor: Barry Malkin
Written by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s Young Adult tone poem, unspools in a black and white never-never land of sullen teens, pool tables and pompadours. It may take a moment for the audience to suss out that we’re not in the Eisenhower era with Chuck Berry, Marilyn Monroe and the Cold War but squarely in Reagan’s domain of MTV, Madonna and the Cold War.
Set in a destitute Oklahoma town with the ghost of The Last Picture Show whistling through its empty streets, Matt Dillon plays Rusty, an inveterate gang-banger growing up in the shadow of his older brother played by Mickey Rourke, a reformed juvenile...
- 4/25/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Article by Dana Jung
In 1959 director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M) released one of his last works, a two-part film known as The Indian Epic. The films (The Tiger Of Eschnapur and its sequel The Indian Tomb, both available on DVD but currently out of print) were part adventure and part travelogue. Today, these films are remembered (if at all) for two things: their incredible location photography, and the erotic dances of star Debra Paget. The scenes with a barely-clad Paget writhing seductively were considered so sexy at the time that the films received a write-up in Playboy magazine. But just five years earlier, as a 20th Century Fox contract player, Paget had played basically the same role (complete with dancing!) of an exotic beauty caught up in political turmoil. The film was the 1954 Fox B-picture Princess Of The Nile, which is sadly Not available on DVD.
The movie opens with...
In 1959 director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M) released one of his last works, a two-part film known as The Indian Epic. The films (The Tiger Of Eschnapur and its sequel The Indian Tomb, both available on DVD but currently out of print) were part adventure and part travelogue. Today, these films are remembered (if at all) for two things: their incredible location photography, and the erotic dances of star Debra Paget. The scenes with a barely-clad Paget writhing seductively were considered so sexy at the time that the films received a write-up in Playboy magazine. But just five years earlier, as a 20th Century Fox contract player, Paget had played basically the same role (complete with dancing!) of an exotic beauty caught up in political turmoil. The film was the 1954 Fox B-picture Princess Of The Nile, which is sadly Not available on DVD.
The movie opens with...
- 1/13/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sneak Peek the greatest moments of American actress Debra Paget, under contract to Fox studios when she starred in the 1954 costume feature "Princess Of The Nile". Set in 1249, Paget played 'Princess Shalimar' an Egyptian princess who disguises herself as 'Tara' a dancing girl, to rid her country of 'Bedouin' conquerors and form an alliance with 'Prince Haidi', son of the 'Caliph of Bagdad'.
After playing 'Lilia' the watergirl in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", Paget moved to Germany, starring in director Fritz "Metropolis" Lang's "Journey To The Lost City", adding to her exotic dancing repertoire.
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After playing 'Lilia' the watergirl in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", Paget moved to Germany, starring in director Fritz "Metropolis" Lang's "Journey To The Lost City", adding to her exotic dancing repertoire.
Sneak Peek Debra Paget...
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- 12/20/2009
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek the greatest moments of American actress Debra Paget, under contract to Fox studios when she starred in the 1954 costume feature "Princess Of The Nile". Set in 1249, Paget played 'Princess Shalimar' an Egyptian princess who disguises herself as 'Tara' a dancing girl, to rid her country of 'Bedouin' conquerors and form an alliance with 'Prince Haidi', son of the 'Caliph of Bagdad'.
After playing 'Lilia' the watergirl in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", Paget moved to Germany, starring in director Fritz "Metropolis" Lang's "Journey To The Lost City", adding to her exotic dancing repertoire.
Sneak Peek Debra Paget...
Buy Posters at AllPosters.com...
After playing 'Lilia' the watergirl in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", Paget moved to Germany, starring in director Fritz "Metropolis" Lang's "Journey To The Lost City", adding to her exotic dancing repertoire.
Sneak Peek Debra Paget...
Buy Posters at AllPosters.com...
- 12/14/2009
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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