Top cast：Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson,Brinsley Shaw,Fred Church
Director:Narciso Cuyàs&Fructuós Gelabert
Genre：Documentary
Region：Germany
Year：2007
Storyline：In the allegorical tale written by Lang""s wife Thea Von Harbou (from her own novel), the luxurious, futuristic, Art Deco city of 2026 - an industrial world with skyscrapers and bridges, was divided or stratified into an upper, elite, privileged class of powerful industrialists and a subterranean, nameless, oppressed and exploited, ant-like worker/slave class.Nicholson: I understand how you feel.Of course, it""s normally the duty of a captured soldier to attempt escape.But my men and I are involved in a curious legal point of which you are unaware.In Singapore, we were ordered to surrender by Command Headquarters, ordered, mind you.Therefore, in our case, escape might well be an infraction of military law.Interesting?Dr.Clipton: Yes, interesting point.Shears: I""m sorry sir.I didn""t quite follow you.You mean you intend o uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs.Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.Shears: You just took my point.Here, there is no civilization.Nicholson: Then, we have the opportunity to introduce it.I suggest hat we drop the subject of escape.As an English gentleman, Nicholson insists that his men be treated as soldiers and that the officers serve only in supervisory capacities, according to the military code of behavior: "I want everything to go off without a hitch starting first thing tomorrow morning.All night, I walk the city, watching the people go by.I try to sing a little ditty, but all that comes out is a sigh.The street looks very frightening, the rain begins and then comes lightning.It seems love""s gone to pot, I""d rather have the blues than what I""ve got...In a snide, sneering mood, the driver, Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) [with a deliberately forceful, pounding, hard phallic name] reveals that he is returning to Los Angeles.The visually-opulent film was inspired by writer/director Fritz Lang""sDer Müde Tod (1921) (aka Destiny or The Tired Death)- the source for the flying horse and carpet sequences, and adapted fromOne Thousand and One Nights(orArabian Nights).