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A Fritz Lang Christmas

By December 23, 2009No Comments

A Fritz Lang Christmas

Not some­thing you’d really wish on any­body: the final minutes of Lang’s Scarlet Street, with a des­ol­ate, derel­ict Edward G. Robinson walk­ing the bust­ling New York streets as the sounds of Christmas car­ols mix with the voices in his head: the woman who made a chump out of him and the man who wrongly went to the chair for her murder, mock­ing him from the after­life in between coo­ing at each other…and  then the crowds dis­solve, the car­ols fade, and it’s just him, and the cold, and the voices.

No; if you can do so, you should abso­lutely avoid hav­ing A Fritz Lang Christmas.

I’m gonna take a few days off from this enter­prise to rest and enjoy the hol­i­day. I’ll be back around the 26th with, among oth­er things, a sur­pris­ing tale of air­line employ­ee help­ful­ness and ingenu­ity, but blog­ging will be light after it resumes at least until after the new year, because I think we’ve all got oth­er stuff to do, no? In the mean­time, have a joy­ous, peace­ful time, and thanks as always for spend­ing time here. 

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