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Happy Birthday To “Master Of Darkness” Fritz Lang

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Lea S.
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Or so BFI likes to call him. At any rate, this is the 127th birthday of this legendary director, a man who kept his life so private that one biographer questioned if Lang’s first wife (#1 of 3 marriages) even existed.

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