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Metropolis, the classic 1927 Fritz Lang German silent anti-fascism science fiction (sci-fi) robot fantasy dystopian future thriller ("The screen sensation of the age!"; "The wonder city of the future"; "Adapted by Channing Pollock"; based on the novel by Thea von Harbou; set designs by Edgar Ulmer; about an ultra-depressing world of the future where the rich people live in cities in the clouds, and the poor people toil away endlessly underground; a female populous leader arises and a mad scientist makes an android robot duplicate of her to ruin her work; a brilliant movie, light years ahead of its time, and movie makers are still stealing from it!) starring Brigitte Helm (in a dual role as Maria, the female leader of the workers, and as the android [gynoid] "Maschinenmensch"), Gustav Frohlich (as Freder), Alfred Abel (as Joh Frederson), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (as Rotwang the Inventor), Theodor Loos (as Josaphat), Fritz Rasp (as the Thin Man), Heinrich George, and Margarete Lanner. Note that there is a fascinating story behind this movie being imported to the U.S. in 1927, that we did not learn until 2023, when we noticed the "Adapted by Channing Pollock" on the first U.S. herald we auctioned, and Internet research (NOT on the IMDb) revealed this: Fritz Lang's version of this movie at the premiere was 153 minutes, and Paramount was unwilling to release such a long movie in the U.S. So they hired playwright Channing Pollock to shorten the movie to a more "reasonable" length, around 2 hours. What Pollock did was to essentially drastically change the entire movie, by shortening it to 115 minutes, and changing all of the inter-titles to ones he wrote! Among the changes he made was that the man who made the robot (Rotwang) had made it in the image of the love of his life, named "Hel", who had run off with another man. Pollock did not want to use the name "Hel", because of its similarity to "Hell", but instead of just changing it, he eliminated all references to the robot having a name, or to the reason why Rotwang built it! He made a number of other major changes to the movie. When Fritz Lang heard what had been done, he said "I love films, so I shall never go to America"! The movie was somewhat restored to its original version in 1984, when the Giorgio Moroder score was added, and has since been completely restored to its original version!
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Important Added Info: Note that this is one of three wonderful 4-page Japanese deluxe movie magazine ads (removed from 3 separate issues of The Movie Times, and we are currently auctioning them in three separate auctions) from the first Japanese release of this most classic movie in 1929. All three of these movie magazine ads were bound into different issues of this leading Japanese movie magazine, and it is totally reasonable that the Japanese distributor would do a major ad campaign in this Japanese movie magazine over several issues, because surely this movie was a giant hit in Japan at that time! The Japanese distributor created strikingly different ads (and these three are all very different from each other)! Each is printed on a high quality paper stock and each was bound into the magazine, and it has been suggested that they were also distributed as "chirashis", and this may well be the case, although these exact ones we are auctioning were ones bound into the magazines. Each of the 3 four-page movie magazine ads has four punch holes near the spine, and since all three magazines were found with these punch holes at the spine of all pages, we would think they may well have been created that way, but it is possible they were added after (we don't know because we have never auctioned any of these before, or any other similar Japanese magazine ads)!

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