Woman In the Moon

Woman In the Moon


Starring:Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim, Gerda Maurus, Gustl Gstettenbaur, Fritz Rasp, Tilla Durieux, Hermann Vallentin, Max Zilzer, Borwin Walth, Mahmud Terja Bey, Karl Platen, Max Maximilian, Heinrich Gotho, Margarete Kupfer, Julius E. Herrmann, Gerhard Dammann, Alfred Loretto, Alexa von Porembsky, Edgar Pauly
Director: Fritz Lang
Studio: Kino Video
Product Type: DVD
Fritz Lang Epic Collection (Metropolis/Die Nibelungen/Woman in the Moon/Spies)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A great collection of early Lang films restored with care
  • First review!
Fritz Lang Epic Collection (Metropolis/Die Nibelungen/Woman in the Moon/Spies)
Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge , Gerda Maurus , Lien Deyers , Louis Ralph , and Craighall Sherry
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ASIN: B00064AEWO
Release Date: 2004-11-09

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A great collection of early Lang films restored with care.......2007-06-22

Fritz Lang always claimed he was a very visual person, and this collection of four movies from the silent era proves it. I'll go through each film individually:

Metropolis - This film is considered by many to be the first feature science fiction film. Ironically, this film, now considered a masterpiece, contributed to the bankruptcy of the studio that backed it. The film has great visual effects and huge sets that still impress today. The film ran so long that it was progressively cut back, and with each succeeding cut it became less coherent. The version on this DVD is still missing about 25% of the original footage, which is probably lost forever. However, using the novel and other sources, the missing scenes have been described on intertitle cards. These added descriptions make the plot clearer by filling in the holes. The story of Metropolis has society divided into two groups, those that toil beneath the city and those that live off of the fruits of their toil above. The extra features include:
1. A 43 minute documentary entitled "Metropolis Case" which has film historian Enno Patalas discussing the film's place in history. The featurette is filled with production shots and includes some vintage interviews with those who worked on the film.
2.A commentary track also done by Enno Patalas.
3.A nine minute featurette on the restoration of the film, several still galleries, cast and crew biographies and some text pages about the film.

Die Nibelungen - This epic film is based on a thirteenth century Nordic saga and includes a fire breathing dragon, treacherous dwarfs, magic swords, and barbarian attacks. The film is five hours in length and is split into two parts. Like Metropolis, this film has some terrific special effects. It is oversimplifying matters to say that if you liked "Lord of the Rings" you'll like this film, but it is probably true. The special features include:
1. "On the set with Fritz Lang" which is an excerpt from a German short. It shows Lang working at Ufa Studios and filming a scene.
2. A five minute reel of production sketches intercut with scenes of the finished product from the movie.
3. "Slaying the Dragon" contains information about the most memorable scene in the movie and includes the original production design, a photo of Lang filming the sequence, the sequence itself, and a similar scene from Douglas Fairbank's "Thief of Baghdad", released the same year, where that star fights a dragon too.
4. Behind the scenes photos with captions.
5. "About the Master", which is a text piece detailing the origin of the master and the lack of tinting on the print.

Spies - This is a suspense/action film that uses sparsely decorated sets compared to the visual feasts of the previously described two films. This film has been circulating in an 89 minute version, but Kino has restored it to 143 minutes in length. The plot involves the head of a large bank, Haghi, who has an elaborate and thorough network of spies. Haghi has stolen secret documents, had people killed, and generally has the British Secret Service running in circles. The government retaliates by putting Number 326, their best spy, on the case, Haghi is wise to the plan, and responds by assigning his best agent, the Russian Sonja to seduce him. However, things get complicated when she and 326 fall in love. The extra features for this film are an image gallery of production photos, advertising for the film itself, and a trailer for the 2002 reissue of Metropolis.

Woman in the Moon - This was Fritz Lang's last silent film. It is a science fiction adventure in which a scientist, Professor Georg Manfeldt, had theorized that there were large supplies of gold on the moon. He was ridiculed by his peers and disgraced because of this. However, a wealthy industrialist believes Manfeldt's theory and has been building a rocket to travel to the moon. when a group of wealthy men who control the world's gold supply feel threatened by the possibility the theory may be correct, they threaten to destroy the rocket unless one of their agents, Turner, is allowed to go on the expedition too. Apparently Lang's film got so much right about space travel that the Germans seized the models used in the film as state secrets when they started their own rocket-building program. This film runs 169 minutes and is quite slow in places. It has some very interesting and thrilling scenes, but it is probably the weakest of the four films in the set. The only extra feature is a photo gallery of production stills and promotional material.

Kino, as always, has done a great job of restoring these early films, and I highly recommend the set for anyone interested in early German cinema or in the works of Fritz Lang. This set may seem expensive compared to those public domain copies of some of these films that are in circulation, but particularly in the arena of silent film you truly get what you pay for.

5 out of 5 stars First review!.......2005-01-06

If you have doubts, this DVD collection contains the same DVDs as the special restored editions that are sold individually. Metropolis and Die Nibelungen are the two stand-out titles here. Metropolis had the most work spent on it, so much so that it often looks as if it were filmed yesterday in B+W. Honestly, it's amazing how good it looks. The score was completely rerecorded and it sounds amazing. Instead of just random music played in the background, it conveys the emotions occurring in the film. It and Die Nibelungen contain various extras that are actually interesting. The other films have also been restored well. Long story short, you have a better idea of whether you will like these films or not, but if you have any questions as to their quality, extras, etc. have no fear these are the special edition discs and they look great.
Woman In the Moon
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • An important milestone toward space exploration
  • Startling prescience
  • Frau im Mond (1929) sophisticated for its time
  • My take on the film
  • Die Frau im Mond
Woman In the Moon
Starring: Willy Fritsch , Gerda Maurus , Klaus Pohl , Fritz Rasp , and Gustl Gstettenbaur
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ASIN: B00064AEXI
Release Date: 2004-11-09

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4 out of 5 stars An important milestone toward space exploration.......2007-06-29

"Frau im Mond" (Woman in the Moon) is a German silent movie of 1929, direct by the great Fritz Lang ("Metropolis" fame), and deals with a trip to the moon. It is not the first to deal with a voyage to the moon -- that honor goes to George Melies 1902 film, "Le Voyage dans la lune" (Trip to the Moon) -- but it is the first to treat the subject realistically. Along with the 1950, "Destination Moon," it belongs to a trio of films which educated the public on space travel, and provided training for future space scientists, aerospace engineers (I was one), and astronauts.

It is based on a novel of the same name, written by Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou. (She also wrote "Metropolis," and it is probably due to her that a strong woman's role was included in the film.) The name of the film, "Woman in the Moon," definitely sounds silly, but is probably a play on the-man-in-the-moon theme. It also reflects the importance of the feminine character to the plot.

The evolution in technical emphasis is very revealing. Melies makes no effort to be technically sound (other that selecting Jules Verne's cannon over the even less plausible anti-gravity "Caverite" of Wells). "Frau im Mond" does make a serious attempt. In fact, its rocket is in many ways more realistic than that of the 20-year-later "Destination Moon." This realism is largely due to the great rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth, who acted as technical advisor. The launch gantry and launch sequence count-down found in the film were prescient. At the same time, there are curious lapses. Too much is made of the point at which the earth and moon gravity cancel each other - there is nothing very special about this point. In particular, it is not responsible for weightless in space. That Oberth would make such a mistake is inconceivable. Perhaps the makers of the film (principally Fritz Lang) believed the public would not buy weightlessness without this plausible, though spurious, explanation. Incidentally, the film was not a great triumph for Oberth. He was to have produced a flying rocket model for the film. His failure to provide one in time hurt his standing as a practical hands-on engineer.

Another gaffe is that the moon would have enough air for humans to breathe. Again, I suspect the makers of the film knew better, but wanted to avoid the complications of space suits. (Would you really want to hide Friede's sweet face in a helmet?) Then there is the "dousing rod" to find water ... enough said! The business about "lots of gold on the moon" is also silly, but here there is a better explanation - or maybe I should say excuse. When one recalls that during the making of this film Germany was suffering great economic hardships, including hyperinflation, the prospect of Germans finding an unlimited source of gold must have been irresistible.

I characterized this film as the middle one in a trio. There are of course other films which might have been somewhat less influential or less well done, but nevertheless contributed to the dawn of the space age. "When Worlds Collide," "Rocketship X-M," and "The Conquest of Space" are three such films. The list would not be complete with including the fine, non-fiction "Man in Space" series of Walt Disney.

This film has something of a cult following, and there are a number of websites devoted to it. One of the best is http://taoyue.com/film/frau-im-mond.html .

5 out of 5 stars Startling prescience.......2006-11-05

Lang made this movie just a few years after Metropolis. There are a few common themes in the two: futuristic speculation, and the central position of love in rather unlikely affairs. I found it different in many ways, though.

First, it stayed closer to Lang's contemporary world. It also did a pretty good job with the science part of the science fiction, down to a realistic portrayal of NASA's Vertical Assembly Building. In fact, Lang's original description of acceleration in meters per second-squared was more accurate then the translated English caption, which used meters per second. Even though the movie stuck closer to Lang's own world, most of the movie has a much more modern look than his better-known Metropolis. The makeup and acting look more natural, at least early on, unlike the exaggerated and iconic posturings throughout Metropolis. And, although the scenes were new to audiences at the time, many Lang's elements have since become the common idiom of more recent films. That scene with the scheming powermongers (cigar-chomping woman included), in their film-equipped board room - it recurred in just about every James Bond movie to date.

A few things didn't work for me, though. I'll let the moon's breathable atmosphere slide, for dramatic convenience. The 1920s pacing got to me after a while: most of the action came in the last 45min of the 2hr 45min movie, and I found some early parts dragging. The one that I just had to grit my teeth and swallow, though, was the quest for gold (yes, that horrendously heavy stuff) as the big reason for going to the moon at all. Well, I guess Lang had to make it understandable in the idiom of the era, but I'm sure he could have done better.

Lang, the actors, and the production grew did quite well, though. Lang's Metropolis was an epic achievement. This movie approaches it, and maybe surpasses it in some ways. See Metropolis first, by all means, but see this one too.

//wiredweird

5 out of 5 stars Frau im Mond (1929) sophisticated for its time.......2006-03-15

Poor penniless Professor Georg Manfeldt has a theory that the moon has gold, lots of it, and why not? His rich friend Wolf Helius owns a rocket factory and it seems that he has sent everything up but people. Turns out his friend Wolf has a problem; the girl Friede that he secretly loves had no idea that he felt that way and married their mutual friend and head engineer Windegger in the factory. A sophisticated criminal element gets involved and wants to control the moon gold flow.

List off occupants:
Professor Georg Manfeldt (Klaus Pohl)
Wolf Helius (Willy Fritsch)
Hans Windegger, Ingenieur (Gustav von Wangenheim)
Friede Velten, Student astrologer (Gerda Maurus)
Gustav, Child stowaway (Gustl Gstettenbaur)
Der Mann, Criminal element (Fritz Rasp)
The Mouse (uncredited)

Everything is going along swimmingly until the obligatory lack of water, oxygen, and life.

This is not your run of the mill love on a rocket that "misfires" movie. Maybe because they took the time to flesh out the movie and not rush the story it turned out to be very sophisticated. There had time for intrigue and subterfuge as even the bad guys were well organized and believable.

Top writers and top director and UFA studios can only produce a masterpiece.

The models are very good and many of the real problems with space are anticipated and depicted, unlike some cheap remakes. I was disappointed to find that all they found on the moon is gold and not Louise Brooks; the title is misleading.

5 out of 5 stars My take on the film.......2006-02-05

Just saw it today! I best love the sequence when they show the rocket ship taking off from earth. Amazing realistic and well detailed and even hardhitting it was. It is by far the best sequence in the film (but the musical score honestly helps it be). Well acted throughout and expertly filmed. much like Metropolis is this film (but more realism and depth). Fans of Met. should see this film (Lang's Dr. Mabuse films are good but they might disappoint people who already just know his Metropolis). Spoiler! I am left with a few unanswered questions for those who have seen the film already:

1)How does the rather puny professor successfuly shove big lug Walter Turner down the stairs? Was Turner drunk at the time?

2)Who exactly is Gustave? A relative of Helius's maid? Or chauffeur?

3)That Louise Brooks-esq cutie selling flowers on the street. How exactly did she successfully assualt Helius in his limo? Gun? Knife? Karate chop? Poison drink? And of the other flower lady selling at the time. Was she in Turner's employ too? Jeers btw to the poster who commented on Helius's looks. That flower-selling babe was the real attractive one of the whole piece.

4)Did that puny professor live or die on the moon? Can't tell.

5) Why was Gerde Maurus's Friede character referred to as The Student in the opening credits. She had a name in the film?

And to the poster who commented after me (creepy huh?): Der Mann is Walter Turner of Chicago.

3 out of 5 stars Die Frau im Mond.......2005-02-06

Painstaking direction by Fritz Lang combines with sometimes ridiculous overwriting by wife Thea von Harbau to produce a mixed masterpiece. The movie can be described as 1) crime thriller segueing into 2) eerily prescient science fiction descending into 3) soapy melodrama. Lang's influence is most obvious in the middle section but the cumbersome plotline slows down the beginning and end.

We open with handsome Doctor Helius chewing scenery with an aged professor driven into poverty and near-insanity by the rejection of his theory that the moon's mountains are full of gold. The good Doctor still believes in him, as do the 5 potentates (!) who control the world's gold supply and wish to corral the moon's as well. This introduces an underworld spy played quite suavely by Fritz Rasp.

We also meet the eponymous Woman, Gerda Maurus, a lady with expressive eyes, no particular figure and a rather bad hair-do. She is a jolly sort, though, as well as a much stronger individual than the jelly-backboned dames who pollute the post-WWII genre, and serves well enough as the love interest for both the good Doctor and his (mostly) loyal engineer Hans.

This all gets sticky for about an hour until we finally meet the Rocketship. The roll-out of the Ship is a sequence of monumental power as the massive craft and supporting structure are slowly rolled out of the assembly building to the launch pad as the moon rises out of the searchlit gloom and crowds and photographers swarm beneath the juggernaut to the accompaniment of radio voice-over which, though completely unheard in a silent film, is so beautifully gestured that we understand exactly what the announcer is saying.

The whole launch and countdown scene is one of the greatest sequences in science fiction, full of painstaking detail, creating immense drive and drama but in a vein of complete human reality. The added film score by Marsalis lends impetus particularly to this sequence.

Scenes of the craft in weightlessness are also well-grounded in physics (rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth was technical consultant). Unfortunately the landing on the moon also lands us right back in the Harlequin romance script. The lunar scenery leaves reality completely behind, while the whole hour-long Gold Syndicate subplot at the beginning basically evaporates into a bit of wrestling in the sand.

The romantic triangle is a good enough romantic triangle. It just seems like a long way to go to have a soap opera.

Even so, the amazing middle part contains maybe the most powerful dramatization of real science that I have seen, inventing the countdown sequence now used routinely in space and military launches. These scenes can be watched separately as a smaller, almost self-contained masterpiece within the much longer film.
Horror 101: The Final Exam is a Killer
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • Made for TV?
  • A Simple Horror Movie
  • Horror 101
  • Neither Scary, Nor Funny: Still I Enjoyed It Somewhat
  • GREAT MOVIE...although not many know about it
Horror 101: The Final Exam is a Killer
Starring: Brigitta Dau , Lisa Gordon , Josh Holland , Paityn James , and Michael Moon (II)
Director: James Glenn Dudelson
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2 out of 5 stars Made for TV?.......2004-05-26

I caught this on TV one day, don't remember when or on what channel, but I remember it still. The bleeding bag bit was the only reason I remember it. Seriously, how could you not notice?

I remember how mediocre the acting was, and how rediculous the plot was. The characters were all self-centered, whiny brats. I would rather have watched "Session 9" than this.

Bottom line: not worth the money

1 out of 5 stars A Simple Horror Movie.......2003-10-26

This movie was just a simple movie-barely any gore-which I love and it is suspenseful. But it is mostly predictable. I only caught it on the Sci-Fi channel once but seemed pulled in to watch just how it would end. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes to be a little scared but doesn't like gore.

3 out of 5 stars Horror 101.......2003-04-07

Horror 101 is definately a classic independent film with a good plot, good acting, a good mystery, and an overall good job.
The film takes place with eight students taking a course on fear. They come for the final exam but the teacher never shows up. Then the lights go out. As the eight peers walk down the dark halls of the building they begin to mysteriously dissapear. The film is a classic because there is barely any gore and it's not a slasher film. It's all purely suspense.

1 out of 5 stars Neither Scary, Nor Funny: Still I Enjoyed It Somewhat.......2002-10-07

Actually, I think the students in the film are college students of some sort, since their teacher (Bo Derek) is a professor, but anyway none of the details in this movie matter much since the writer or director couldn't be bothered with establishing much verisimilitude.

I mean that few people would be convinced that situation, the students or the settings are particulary realistic. What we are given is basically a standard teen horror movie without the sex, harsh language, or graphic violence. All of the students are stereotypes: the rebel, the jock, the jock's girlfriend, the nerd, etc. The cast, in my opinion, is the best part of this mediocre flick mostly because I found all the girls to be very cute, the bully almost menacing and the nerd not wimpy.

However, they're all done in by a ho-hum situation: "trapped" in a school at night with the electricity off (temporarily) and someone stalking them, making them disappear one by one. The problem is that all along the details aren't there to make us believe.

We start off with a class that has only about 8 students (we are told half the students had dropped the course), presumably because we wouldn't want 30 victims in the halls 'cause you'd need an army of psychos to stalk them. No one really cares about the class anyway, despite it being near the end of the class (I think the subject is "The Psychology of Fear," though again, that's not important.) and course projects and final exams are coming due. In fact, one project, by a cute redhead named Tiffany, is entitled "10 Reasons Why Girls Kill Less Often Than Boys" and is a sort of lame David Letterman list. Really, that's her project, and Bo Derek, as The Professor, seems to expect nothing deeper than that.

I'm wandering, but my point is there's very little sense of real people trapped in circumstances beyond their control. No sense of being obligated to deal with horror because there's no other choice. Trapped by dogs in a large, deserted building? Get real! Wandering off alone when you think someone's stalking people? Get real! They must've seen some movies.

There's all the little details: when three students are down in the basement looking for the switch to turn the lights back on, a light is already clearly visible over the corner of guy's shoulder and casts a shadow, or when one student runs back into the building because he can't drive his car past a parking garage gate (your life's at risk, dude, ram it!), or when one of the girls knocks over terrarium with a - gasp! - iguana in it (the horror!), or that stupid bleeding bag which doesn't really amount to...but you know...

I know they were on a budget and yet, come on guys, this didn't need a lot of special effects to get it right...

(Plus, you already have a good idea who the killer is (are) from some very broad hints before the night of "terror" begins.)

The ending really wasn't in keeping with the spirit of a low-budget, fairly harmless and nonviolent movie. My girlfriend and I thought it was unnecessary to end the movie in such a fashion.

Again, not a bad movie unless you were looking for horror, terror, or some scantily clad women. (Bo Derek has few scenes,if you were wondering, once the hunt begins.)

5 out of 5 stars GREAT MOVIE...although not many know about it.......2002-09-26

This was a truly great film about a class of high school students who find themselves locked in the school. Unforunately, their teacher never showed and the kids disappear mysteriously. The acting is great, this movie has suspense AND comedy. I t was shown on Sci-Fi only ONCE and i was lucky enough to watch it, then buy the dvd. It's really great, i recommend it to all horror fans!
Horror 101: The Final Exam is a Killer
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    Horror 101: The Final Exam is a Killer
    Starring: Bo Derek , Lisa Gordon , Justin Urich , Brigitta Dau , and Scott Rinker
    Director: James Dudelson
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    Woman in Green/Dressed to Kill
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • "Just the basics, Watson, just the basics. . ."
    • Where is "Key Video" when you need them
    • Sherlock Looks Great on DVD!
    Woman in Green/Dressed to Kill
    Starring: Sherlock Holmes
    Manufacturer: Koch Full Moon Releasing
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    ASIN: B0000520Q3
    Release Date: 2000-11-21

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars "Just the basics, Watson, just the basics. . .".......2002-01-12

    What a relief to find a DVD of Holmes and Watson that is not an out and out abomination, like the 'Evening With Holmes' boxed set from Focus FIlms (I still have a bad taste in my mouth from that one). This DVD has acceptable audio without background noise, and the picture quality is crisp and clear, and relatively speckle free--it notes on the case that these two selections have been 'digitally remastered'. The presentation does not, as far as I can tell, lack any footage from the original.

    Four stars instead of five, because there is nothing--absolutely nothing--in the way of added features for either picture. That, and the fact that you are forced to sit through a Marengo Films promotional clip before you can even access the menu.

    On the other hand, if you want Rathbone and Bruce, and nothing but Rathbone and Bruce, than this DVD is about as good a one as you're likely to find, at least until someone like Criterion or Anchor Bay decides to take on the entire series in special edition releases. In the meantime, and at this price, you can hardly go wrong. . .

    3 out of 5 stars Where is "Key Video" when you need them.......2001-04-02

    I must admit, I've been spoiled by VHS. Never thought I'd say that while reviewing a DVD. Not sure when or if "Key Video" will dub their VHS master copies of the Sherlock Holmes Collection onto DVD (let's hope it's soon), but the Marengo version is adequate at best. If you have any of the original Sherlock's on VHS from Key Video get ready for a video and audio disappointment with this DVD. Video is bright and soft, and no amount of Contrast/Brightness adjusting will make it much better. I hate this about older movies, especially when another company has a far superior copy of the same flick. The audio is Digital Mono (as expected), and sounds hollow. Overall the movies are clean, but not excitingly so. It's worth the $13, but I'd hope for a complete Key Video release before investing the any others...

    5 out of 5 stars Sherlock Looks Great on DVD!.......2000-12-13

    I am a huge fan of the 1940's Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Marengo Films has released The Women In Green and Dressed To Kill as a DVD Double Feature and they did a wonderful job! What really stands out is the attention to quality from the box art to the quality of the prints. The whole presentation from Marengo Films is A +. I hope to see more Sherlock Holmes titles from this company, I will replace all of my collection with these fine DVDs.

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