Showing posts with label Fritz Lang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fritz Lang. Show all posts

The Woman in the Window (1944)

Directed by Fritz Lang

This is one of the best film noir that Fritz Lang directed.  Much better than the over-hyped Scarlet Street which had the same main cast of Ed G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea.  A great example of the genre, it has all the identifiers associated with film noir and builds to a conversation piece of a conclusion.  Some love it some hate it (the ending that is).  Worth seeing so as to judge for yourself.

Scarlet Street (1945)

Directed by Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang film-noir that would be all but forgotten if not for a shocking murder scene that got the movie banned in the US for years. The usually dependable Ed G. Robinson puts in one of the poorer performances of his career.