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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305908517 Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC ISBN: 6305908516 Label: Image Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Image Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 18, 2000 Running Time: 212 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1922 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Fritz Lang wrote the script to this exotic epic adventure with the intention of directing it himself, but when producer Joe May (a pioneer of German silent cinema himself) read it, he nabbed it, and did the work proud. Conrad Veidt (the stalking somnambulist of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as a vengeful maharajah with a diabolical plot against his unfaithful wife and her haughty British lover. His plan involves a monumental tomb dedicated to his lost love, a spell-casting yogi (revived from his underground tomb in a riveting prologue), and a world-famous architect (Olaf Fonss), who is secretly whisked away to Bengal. Close behind is his fiancée Irene (Mia May, the director's wife and frequent star), who follows him to the maharajah's grand palace. With his piercing eyes and gaunt, hawklike face, Veidt cuts a majestic figure and makes a fascinating villain, his menace tempered with a haunted sense of sadness. Working with magnificent sets and simple but graceful special effects, May creates a sense of wonder and grandeur in the first half of the film, and then kicks it into high gear for a swiftly paced second half of deadly tiger pits, crocodile-infested moats, cliffhanger escapes, and mountaintop chases, straddling both high adventure and dramatic melancholy. The 3.5-hour production doesn't drag for a second. --Sean Axmaker Description: Joe May's spectacular "The Indian Tomb" captivated audiences in 1921, and was one of the biggest successes of its day. This lavish adventure thriller transported cinemagoers to an atmospheric India of the romantic imagination, with elaborate temples and palaces, exotic yogis and dancing girls, roaring tigers on the prowl and hissing cobras. Thea von Harbou's colorful plot stretches over two feature-length films, with twists and turns worthy of a serial. Ayan, the powerful Maharajah of Eschnapur, has lost his beloved wife, the beautiful Princess Savitri, but not through death. He plots revenge against Savitri and her lover MacAllan, an English officer. Ayan vows to build a tomb to his dead love; he'll supply the mausoleum's occupant. A yogi, Ramigani, prophesies that revenge will ruin the prince's life. Ayan sends the yogi to Europe to hire an architect, Herbert Rowland, who is sworn to secrecy about his commission. Rowland's fiancee Irene follows him to India, and the adventure begins. "The Indian Tomb" features a fantastic star-studded cast, topped by the legendary Conrad Veidt, who has a field day as the charismatic, sadistic Maharajah. Sumptuously photographed by Werner Brandes with a beautiful new score compiled and orchestrated by Eric Beheim, this is the most complete version available. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An Indian epicThough this film runs just over three and a half hours long, the time flew by for me as though it were nothing. Written by the legendary Fritz Lang and his then-wife Thea von Harbou, it begins with an intertitle explaining that when a sleeping yogi in a tomb is awakened from his trance, he is commanded to absolutely obey the one who found him and reanimated him. In this case, Prince Ayan III (Conrad Veidt), the Rajah of Eschnapur, finds Ramigani (Bernhard Goetzke) and orders him to go to Europe ... Read More Rating: - Exotic movie - Good DVDThe plot of The Indian Tomb concerns an architect who is summoned to India to build a tomb for a prince's dead love. Since he has just been admiring the Taj Mahal and daydreaming of such an opportunity, he is putty. From the beginning things are creepy. The prince contacts him through a fakir who can transport himself across distances with the power of his mind. The fakir also uses this power to keep the architect from contacting his fiancee to tell her about the trip to India. He is always staring ... Read More Rating: - Simply Splendid and Magnificent!This amazing 4-hour German epic rivals any major Cecil B DeMille or other giant Hollywood production with its marvellous exotic sets, action and drama. In fact, for me this film has extra special appeal due to the supernatural element surrounding the mystical yogi and his powers, whose role actually underpins the entire story. The next major attraction for me are the often quite authentic-looking mogul palaces and Indian temples in this film. Having visited Rajasthan, India and viewed maharajahs' palaces, ... Read More Rating: - Dare I say... statelyMost movie lovers know that to describe a movie as stately is critic jargon for slow and boring. However, it's really the only word I can think of to describe the beginning of this film. The Maharajah of Bengal unearths a slumbering holy man and sends him on a mission: bring back the English architect Herbert Rowland to build a fabulous to tomb to Ayan's dead love. Thus begins part one of The Indian Tomb. One of the most expensive movies of the 20s, the film was panned by critics of the time and was ... Read More Rating:  - Consider This Film a Miniseries: Long but HypnoticI'm not sure I would have had the patience to watch this three and a half hour two-part epic if the print quality and overall way this DVD edition was put together - thank you, David Shephard! - was not top-notch. The film's pristine image quality and evocative musical accompaniment helped generate an hypnotic, dream-like quality to the story. Conrad Veidt's charismatic persona initially attracted to me to this film and, performance-wise, his is the best role in the film. Mia May is a rather aging and plump ... Read More |
