Last week it was the head clamp from A Clockwork Orange, for this week's Movie Gadget Friday Josie Fraser reaches back to the silent era with the False Maria from Fritz Lang's Metropolis: German ...

The secondary antagonist of Fritz Lang s silent science fiction classic Metropolis, Rotwang is tasked by the city s tyrannical ruler with completing a robot lookalike of Maria, the leader of the ...

Although many sci-fi films followed, none have had the lasting, seemingly self-regenerating appeal of Fritz Lang's silent classic – perhaps because, after its Berlin premiere in 1927, it is arguable ...

The 1927 silent epic is one of the most influential films ever made. One would be hard pressed to find a modern film which even attempts to encompass as much social commentary as Metropolis does ...