The Complete Metropolis

Almost uncut, almost for the first time

by James M. Manheim

posted 9/8/2010

With its hypermodern skyscrapers, robots, swarms of extras--almost 38,000 of them--and lumbering political ideas, Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction film Metropolis is the original blockbuster. The film shows factory owners and managers living in luxury, workers who lead regimented lives underground, and an epic conflict, complete with love story and

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