The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Man Hunt
When
Wed 11 May 2022
Based on Geoffrey Household’s classic ripped-from-the-'headlines' novel, Rogue Male (1939), Lang’s film is the first of an extraordinary run of contemporary thrillers and proto-noirs that would define his Hollywood legacy.
On the eve of World War II, a British game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) travels to Hitler’s Berchtesgaden lair to stake out his prey. This intense and atmospheric (shot by the great Arthur Miller) cat-and-mouse tale was frowned upon by authorities for its overt anti-Nazism in the months prior to the US’s entry into the war. With Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine and Roddy McDowall.
Program
More than Night: The Fatal Vision of Fritz Lang
M (1931) – Wed 4 May at 7pm
While the City Sleeps (1956) – Wed 4 May at 9.10pm
Man Hunt (1941) – Wed 11 May at 7pm
Cloak and Dagger (1946)– Wed 11 May at 8.55pm
Ministry of Fear (1944) – Wed 18 May at 7pm
Spione (1928) – Wed 18 May at 8.40pm
About the program
Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was a master of both expressionism and film noir whose career spanned almost 50 years, taking him from the vibrant and highly influential German studio system of the pre-Nazi era to many of the Hollywood majors. Often described as a film director’s director, Lang was a virtuoso of the moving image...
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