M. (Classical Film Scripts S) - Softcover

Lang, Fritz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0900855185 ISBN 13: 9780900855184

Publisher: Imprint unknown, 1968

Synopsis

This is Jon Muth's illustrated four-issue graphic novel mini series from 1990, based on Fritz Lang's suspense thriller, "M", collected for the first time in hardback. Behind every great suspense thriller lurks the shadow of "M". In Fritz Lang's first sound film "M" (1931), Peter Lorre delivers a haunting performance as a serial killer - a whistling paedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial by the forces of the Berlin underworld. In 1990, a young artist, Jon J Muth, continued his rise in the comic book industry by adapting the story into four comics published by Eclipse Comics. Long out of print, they have never been collected together before.

About this title

About the Author

Fritz Lang was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Working first in Berlin during the silent-film era of the 1920s and later in Hollywood, Lang explored the darker side of human nature through his cinema. Thea Von Harbou was married to director Fritz Lang and wrote the screenplay for M as well as his most celebrated film Metropolis. In 1932, a year before Adolf Hitler came to power, she joined the Nazi Party, which presumably led to her divorce from Lang, who left Germany in 1934 for Paris. Harbou died in Berlin in 1954.

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Publication date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0900855185
• ISBN 13: 9780900855184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112