Starring: Peter Lorre
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Plot: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
But is it any good?
I’d never heard of M before. Shame on me! I had seen Metropolis, and was rather overwhelmed that a directed had made something so ambitious so long […]
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Plot: The Tramp struggles to survive in an industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
But is it any good?
Let me start by saying that I much prefer City Lights and The Great Dictator. Those two films had me actually crying with laughter, while Modern Times […]
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Plot: The Tramp falls for a blind flower girl and befriends an alcoholic millionaire, swallows a whistle and falls into a canal 50 times.
But is it any good?
1931 and Chaplin still wasn’t talking! And fair enough, as he was undeniably the comic genius of mime. Every […]
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Starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Plot: It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don’t know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don’t have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a […]
