The Indian Tomb (1959 film)
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| Directed by | Fritz Lang |
| Produced by | Artur Brauner |
| Screenplay by |
Thea von Harbou Fritz Lang Werner Jörg Lüddecke |
| Based on | Das indische Grabmal by Thea von Harbou |
| Starring |
Debra Paget Paul Hubschmid Walter Reyer Claus Holm Valéry Inkijinoff Sabine Bethmann |
| Music by |
Gerhard Becker Michel Michelet |
| Cinematography | Richard Angst |
| Edited by | Walter Wischniewsky |
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| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Release date
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1959 |
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Running time
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102 minutes |
| Country | West Germany France Italy |
| Language | German |
The Indian Tomb aka. Journey to the Lost City, or in original German, Das indische Grabmal, is a 1959 German-French-Italian adventure drama film directed by Fritz Lang.
It is the second of two films comprising what has come to be known as Fritz Lang's Indian Epic; the other is The Tiger of Eschnapur (Der Tiger von Eschnapur). The film was based on the novel Das indische Grabmal, written by Lang's ex-wife, Thea von Harbou, who had died in 1954. In 1960 American International Pictures obtained the rights to both films and combined them into one film called Journey to the Lost City. Curiously, when it was dubbed into the Spanish language, they were shown as two separate films (one being the continuation of the other).
The film is probably best remembered for Debra Paget's "snake dance scene".
At its initial release, especially German film critics were negative about The Indian Tomb. Die Welt even wrote: "Here lies Fritz Lang, once creator of important films like Metropolis and M. The 'Indian tomb' is his own." [grave as a filmmaker] In contrast to those opinions, the contemporary American film critics are positive about the film.
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