Man Hunt

"Man Hunt" directed by Fritz Lang, the first film I watched in La Filmo, from 1941 starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett(doing a hilariously bad cockney accent throughout the film). Pidgeon in the role as british leisure-hunter Alan Thorndike who attempts to assasin Adolf Hitler. Thorndike is caught by german soldiers and tortured, however he manages to escape to England where he meets Jerry (Bennett) a young poor cockney girl in need of some company. The germans have tracked him to england, and he is therefore forced to stay with Jerry, with whom he falls in love with. The story takes an, if possible, even more drastic turn when the germans kill Jerry while Thorndike is in hiding in the suburbs of London.
It is actually quite a complicated story, incredibly interesting, exciting and amusing. Definitely worth watching, I'd say, and also, incidentally, the best Fritz Lang film I've seen so far (I haven't seen a lot though, not even Metropolis, so don't judge me).
Keep reading, I'll post my Paris pictures later!

- Andrae

back from the travels

oi ok, im home and will be blogging some about my trip, pictures are on their way, meanwhile why dont we take a look at some of the films i've watched in Paris's lovely Filmotheque du quatier Latin
aka La Filmo. One of Paris's older cinemas, placed on the rue de champollion, where many a cinephile has set his or her feet.

I was very lucky, during my stay in Paris, La Filmo were having a Fritz Lang theme. So I'll start where I ended, the last film I got to see in La Filmo - "Rancho Notorious" starring the gorgeous Marlene Dietrich among others. This film is from 1952 and the version they showed was in technicolor, which was quite strange when i'd just gotten used to black and white films. It is a western about verns (Arthur Kennedy search for his fiances killer, in order to revenge her, he travels far to a mysterious place called chuckaluck where he finds the beautiful landlady Altar Keane (Dietrich) and loads of criminals, that she hides from the authoritites in order to get a share of their loot! Now remains the questions, who is the killer?
This film is quite amusing, the song "The legend of chuck-A-luck" is absolutely brilliant, it is in no way my favorite fritz lang film, but i am sure that it is perfect for a day with hangovers.

more to come
- Andrae