 Finding it difficult to find congenial production conditions and backers in Hollywood, particularly as his health declined with age, Lang contemplated retirement.The German producer Artur Brauner had expressed interest in remaking "The Indian Tomb" (from an original story by Thea von Harbou, that Lang had developed in the 1920s which had ultimately been directed by Joe May).So Lang returned to Germany, to make his "Indian Epic" (consisting of "The Tiger of Eschnapur" and "The Indian Tomb").