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December 18th, 2005 at 21:33 (1920s)

I’ve recently mentioned Fritz Lang’s Metropolis here. The good news is that it seems to be in the public domain and you can download it at archive.org. The bad news is that the length of 114 minutes they mention seems oddly short.
Anyway this is a good opportunity to post some more pictures from this movie.

 

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beard and genuine foxine

December 15th, 2005 at 15:30 (1930s)

I wonder why in the few Hollywood movies, that feature a bearded main character, this actor always shaves his beard after a woman convinced him that he would look much better without a beard. Usually he doesn’t.
Here’s another movie that features a bearded attorney living in Budapest, Hungary. While he gets his shave the woman, who is responsible for this crude act, goes shopping for some genuine foxine (note the sign that obviously shows she’s in a large department store in Budapest…ha ha ha)

What’s the name of the movie we’re looking for today and what’s the name of the attorney who’s so happy about a pencil sharpener he thought the foxine woman has delivered him. Actually she just got it from the delivery boy while searching for our hero in the entrance of his appartment.