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...November 1965 Chicago police arrested Donald Lang, 20, for the murder of a prostitute who had been found in a ghetto alley brutally beaten and stabbed to death. The cops were certain they had their man: the hooker was last seen leaving a nearby tavern with Lang, a Chicago dock worker, and a speedy investigation turned up bloodstained clothing in his apartment. Lang's alibi? He had none. But then he could not talk. Nor could he hear, read, write or use sign language. Lang was a deaf-mute who communicated solely by gestures and rough drawings. Because...
Sing Auld Lang Syne for Skiddy von Stade...
...Romance Lang one more Bruneau...
...Producer Jennings Lang says airport movies will become just like westerns; he expects to do at least ten to 20 more," notes Pamela Bellewood, star of Lang's new fly-by-fright flick. Titled Airport 77, the movie features Jimmy Stewart as a millionaire art collector, Bellewood as his daughter and the obligatory lineup of golden Hollywood oldies, including Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. In this one, Stewart & Co. jet off with their art treasures on a jumbo junket to Palm Beach, only to learn that thieves have put sleep gas in the 747's ventilation system...
Died. Fritz Lang, 85, Viennese-born film director of early German suspense thrillers (Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, M) and Hollywood melodramas (Fury); after a long illness; in Los Angeles. A tall, terse perfectionist, Lang was "profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death." M, for example, was a horrifying study of a compulsive child murderer. When his next film, The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1932), was banned by the Third Reich, Lang fled to Hollywood, where he spent 20 highly successful years working with stars like Spencer Tracy and Henry Fonda in a variety of social melodramas, westerns...