{"id":9867,"date":"2014-10-11T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2014-10-11T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T19:17:59","slug":"fritz-langs-man-hunt-goes-blu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9867","title":{"rendered":"Fritz Lang&#8217;s Man Hunt Goes Blu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ManHunt1941_poster_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9869\" alt=\"ManHunt1941_poster_m\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ManHunt1941_poster_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ManHunt1941_poster_m.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ManHunt1941_poster_m-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>As more of Fritz Lang\u2019s American films make their way to Blu-ray \u2013 <strong>Cloak and Dagger<\/strong> (1946) and <strong>Scarlet Street <\/strong>(1945) from Kino, <strong>Secret Beyond the Door<\/strong> (1947) from Olive, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5436\">The Big Heat<\/a><\/strong> (1953) from Twilight Time, <strong>Hangmen Also Die!<\/strong> (1943) from Cohen Media \u2013 it makes it tough to ignore the power of this obsessive, dictatorial, brilliant filmmaker who fled Germany after being asked by the Nazis to head UFA, and struggled to work within the Hollywood studio system.<\/p>\n<p>Treated like a God in Germany but regarded as a skilled employee by Hollywood, Lang needed a lengthy period of adjustment and perhaps some lessons as to when to exert his mighty ego, but <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9866\"><strong>Man Hunt <\/strong><\/a>(1941) marked a perfect fusion of his classic German spy films and contemporary politics.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the 1939 novel <strong>Rogue Male<\/strong> by Geoffrey Household, its premise is audacious even by today\u2019s standards: a big game hunter sneaks into Germany to assassinate Hitler. This isn\u2019t a new concept to contemporary audiences \u2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/3199_DeathPresident2006.htm\">Death of a President<\/a><\/strong> (2006) was a faux docu-drama about the assassination of a then-sitting American President George W. Bush, and the comedy <strong>The Interview<\/strong> (2014) has two bumbling reporters asked by the CIA to kill North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un \u2013 but to WWII audiences it must have elicited some striking responses.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve uploaded a review of Twilight Time\u2019s lovely Blu-ray edition, covering the film and the extras ported over from the prior Fox DVD.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming shortly:<\/em> a set of war-themed films from Twilight Time \u2013 Paul Greengrass\u2019 <strong>Resurrected<\/strong> (1989) and John Irvin\u2019s <strong>The Dogs of War<\/strong> (1980).<\/p>\n<p><em>Currently out in this month\u2019s issue of Rue Morgue magazine<\/em>: my print interview with composer Fabio Frizzi (<strong>The Beyond<\/strong>) regarding his upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/music\/event-detail.asp?ID=16612\" target=\"window\">Frizzi 2 Fulci<\/a> concert this Halloween at London\u2019s The Barbican with new music. A podcast version of the lengthy interview will follow in early November, but in case you missed my conversation with Frizzi prior to last year\u2019s concert, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=971\" target=\"window\">check out my 2013 podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Fritz Lang&#8217;s mean yet pulpy &#038; weird WWII thriller Man Hunt (1941), new on Blu from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,123,2563,3077],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ManHunt1941_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2z9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}