Lang made one film while in france, liliom 1934, and then accepted david o. When jeanluc godard asked the austrian filmmaker fritz lang in 1961 to. Selznicks offer to make a motion picture in hollywood for metrogoldwynmayer, inc. It includes three songs by the famed kurt weill, including the right guy for me. Work jazz relaxing saxophone music for work and study calm cafe music cafe music bgm channel 6,037 watching live now. Sylvia sydney as the sprightly salesgirl helen, carries the picture. With debra paget, paul hubschmid, walther reyer, claus holm. You and me 1938 film noir george raft and sylvia sydney directed by fritz lang. Born in vienna, lang was responsible for some of the most technically and visually groundbreaking films of the silent and early sound era, including metropolis 1927 and m 1931. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies.
A german architect runs away with the maharajah of eschnapurs fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from europe looking for him and the maharajahs brother is scheming to usurp the throne. You can download free movies from reliable, wellknown sites. Virginia van upp screen play, norman krasna based on a story by and. Wallis novel once off guard, the story features two surprise twists at the end. His mother, pauline schlesinger, was jewish but converted to catholicism when lang was ten.
This film is one of acclaimed director fritz lang s less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire. Director fritz lang gives depth and dimension to his production by distinctly capturing the ecstasy of the films many characters and focusing accurately on individual situations. Fritz langs only romantic comedy still displays his. The film was originally released in the united states and other countries as madame butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired giacomo puccinis eponymous opera. George raft plays joe dennis, an exconvict working in a department store. Fritz lang was among the most distinctive and also unfairly maligned of these refugee directors, but you and me was one of a small number of american pictures which he produced as well as directed and thus was able to imbue it with his own particular brand of art deco comic book oddity. You and me combines elements of the musical, romantic comedy, and crime film genres in a bizarre experiment that left audiences and critics at the time baffled. Robinson, joan bennett, raymond massey, and dan duryea. You and me 1938 film noir george raft and sylvia sydney. A group of children are playing an elimination game in the courtyard of an apartment building in berlin using a chant about a child. The invaluable, shortlived magazines article on the master of darkness. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow exconvicts in a plan to rob the store. Robinson who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale. Until i bought this item, you and me was one of the few fritz lang pictures i had never seen apart from a couple of early german films now considered lost and is scarce.
You and me might not approach anything near the heights of previous lang masterpieces of both hollywood and germany, its nowhere near the disaster lang dismissed it as. Fritz lang subscribed to a channel 11 months ago motorrad channel. With twenty or so more efforts left from the director mostly in a hollywood where he constantly battled with the suits, and then a few films near the end that returned him. It was the fascinating visual means with which he chose to express that made him one of the creative giants in the history of both the german and american cinema.
You and me at imdb all languages of subtitles for you and me movie at. You and me 1938 fritz lang, sylvia sidney, george raft. Find release information for you and me 1938 fritz lang on allmovie. Approved 1h 34min crime, drama, filmnoir, romance 10 june 1938 usa an altruistic departmentstore owner hires exconvicts in order to give them a second chance at life. For me, lang s film got tainted by association with queens song one that, ironically enough, became part of the very radio blah it ostensibly indicted. They play a pair of criminals on parole and working in a department store full of similar cases. The woman in the window is a 1944 american film noir directed by fritz lang and starring edward g. Harry careys character routinely hires exconvicts to staff his store. This edition is intended for spanish language audiences.
Frau im mond is undoubtedly one of the first and most important scifi movies ever made. Among his employedprisongraduates are helen roberts and joe dennis, working as sales clerks. Fritz lang, austrianborn american motionpicture director whose films, dealing with fate and peoples inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense. The film was written by norman krasna and virginia van upp. You and me 1938 fritz lang synopsis, characteristics.
It made me think of demonstrating, within the framework of a film. You and me 1938 fritz lang, sylvia sidney, george raft, robert cummings, crime, romance june 14, 2017 mr. Directed by austrian director fritz lang best known for his masterpieces m and metropolis, its a story of a halfmad greedy scientist obsessed with the idea of getting gold from the moon and a moon expedition that follows, there is also a love story that goes along. Fritz lang interviewed by william friedkin william friedkin, 1974. Made in 1938, fritz lang s you and me was probably the first noircrime film to combine comedy, lighthearted romance, and musical sketches into a morality play concerning the consequences of crime. In its own perverse, odd duck fashion, you and me fits fairly well within the directors wheelhouse, plunging us into a paranoiac underworld of urban labyrinths and criminal conspiraciesall of it swathed in deep reservoirs of shadow, naturally. Now considered a classic, lang himself believed it was his finest work. In most interviews, lang dismisses you and me within hollywood categories, his only attempt at straight comedy as a failure. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the technische hochschule wien and then started to train as a painter.
Harakiri, or madame butterfly, is a 1919 silent film directed in germany by fritz lang. You and me by fritz lang fritz lang, sylvia sidney. Snap f6hp80 from alamys library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. But langian obsessions aside, this film is more mischievous. Friedrich christian anton fritz lang december 5, 1890 august 2, 1976 was an austriangermanamerican filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. It tells the story of psychology professor richard wanley edward g. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled exconvicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. When jeanluc godard asked the austrian filmmaker fritz lang in 1961 to name his greatest film, the one most likely to last, lang did not hesitate. Made in 1931, near the end of the weimar republic, m is lang s brilliant link between silent film and talkies, and between german expressionism and what would eventually be called film noir. It was one of the first japanesethemed films depicting japanese culture. M 1931 m is a cinematic masterpiece of visual drama.
A truly offbeat protonoir crime comedy directed by german film pioneer fritz lang at the start of his hollywood tenure. The stunning performances define the careers of exceptional actors such as peter lorre and gustaf grundgens. M is a 1931 german dramathriller film directed by fritz lang and starring peter lorre. Fritz lang brought to the screen a vision of a world largely populated by criminals, psychopaths, prostitutes, and maladjusted personalities, ruled by the inevitability of fate. Along with liliom, which fritz lang made in france during his run from the nazi film studios to those in hollywood, his 1938 whatsit you and me is an ungainly but immeasurably pleasurable experiment from a director who, like his quasidisciple and later model, alfred hitchcock, is too often pigeonholed into making only just one kind of film. That film, fury 1936, which starred spencer tracy and sylvia sidney, was a powerful, unforgiving study of mob violence but met with only moderate boxoffice success. You and me is a 1938 american crime film noir directed by fritz lang and starring sylvia sidney and george raft. George raft and silvia sidney costar as starcrossed lovers who meet while working in a large new york department store whose president believes in hiring excons as a way to help them socially rehabilitate themselves. With sylvia sidney, george raft, barton maclane, harry carey. Fritz lang s life, work and the role he played in the development and promotion of film noir are the main subject of barry lyonss article, which sheds a.