Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi epic "Metropolis" regularly appears on lists ... who aims to build a robot duplicate of Maria. The plan is to send the robot duplicate back into the underground, have ...

Adapted from the original novel by Thea von Harbou, the screenplay was co-written by her and Fritz Lang, who were married at the time. Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, and Rudolf ...

starting with Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis, which broke new ground in science fiction storytelling with the creation of Maria, a robot designed to look human and control the workers in an ...