The Tiger Of Eschnapur #1 (From Eric Beheim)

Several years ago, Buckles’ Blog posted some frame enlargements from THE INDIAN TOMB, a 3-hour silent film produced in Germany in 1922 and starring Conrad Veidt as a charismatic/ruthless maharajah who keeps a collection of live tigers inside a walled enclosure on his palace grounds. “They are reliable,” he tells a visitor, “when one has need of them.” (It is later revealed that he uses them to dispose of his enemies!) In 1958, famous director Fritz Lang (who had co-written the script for THE INDIAN TOMB) remade it as a two-part epic that was filmed on location in India in the province of Rajastan. Part I is THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR and Part II is THE INDIAN TOMB. (These two films were later condensed into a singled 90-minute version that was released in the U.S. in 1960 as JOURNEY TO THE LOST CITY.) Here are few frame enlargements from THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR that give some idea as to the color and scope of the production.