04531cam a2200781 a 4500 fritzlangnatureo0000mcgi CaSfIA 20250824020846.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 960718s1997 nyua obq 001 0beng 96030622 (OCoLC)1341899111 DLC eng DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG NIALS UAB GEBAY OCLCO P4I OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO DEBBG OCLCQ YT1 OCLCO KKX YMJ OCLCQ OCLCO BRL OCLCA TXMAR JDP OCLCQ OCLCO Z5U OCLCQ OCL OCLCO TYC OCLCO OCLCA OCL OCLCO OCLCA OCLCQ OCLCO IL4J6 OCLCO CaSfIA 0312132476 9780312132477 0312194544 (pbk.) 9780312194543 (pbk.) 9780571191758 0571191754 n-us--- PN1998.3.L36 M38 1997 B L269m 791.43/0233/092 20 B 20 AP 51204 rvk McGilligan, Patrick. Fritz Lang : the nature of the beast / Patrick McGilligan. Nature of the beast New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. 1 online resource (548 pages : illustrations) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Filmography: pages 483-503. The name of Fritz Lang - the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable motion pictures - is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends, and his genius as a filmmaker? Was he a closet Nazi in Germany, and later, a virtual Communist in America? Did he really refuse an offer from Hitler to become the Third Reich's "Fuhrer of film" before he fled to the United States in the early 1930s, or was this oft-repeated anecdote the embroidered invention of an ingenious storyteller? Was Lang a sensitive and compassionate artist, as well as a lover of famous women (among them his Berlin compatriot Marlene Dietrich)? Or was he a sado-masochistic beast whose torturous on-set behavior was mirrored, off the job, in a sordid love life crowded with prostitutes and mistresses? Did Fritz Lang, preoccupied with murder in his work, in fact kill his own first wife - who died mysteriously in his presence after catching him in the arms of the Nazi-leaning screenwriter who became his second wife? Patrick McGilligan spent four years in Europe and America, interviewing Lang's dying contemporaries, researching government and film archives, and investigating the life story of Fritz Lang. His definitive biography - the only such book on Lang, who encouraged publicity but discouraged the truth - reconstructs the fascinating, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle. English. Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976. Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography. Producers and directors United States Biography. Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma États-Unis Biographies. Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976 fast (OCoLC)fst00034110 Motion picture producers and directors. fast (OCoLC)fst01027225 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Lang, Fritz 1890-1976 gnd Biografie gnd Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976. nli Motion picture producers and directors Germany Biography. nli Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography. nli Lang, Fritz (Regisseur) swd Biography collective biographies. aat Biographies. fast (OCoLC)fst01919896 Biographies. lcgft Biographies. rvmgf Table of contents http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=007753014&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA https://archive.org/details/fritzlangnatureo0000mcgi Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7857091M Additional information and access via Open Library fritzlangnatureo0000mcgi ark:/13960/s2nx82xvv97