Lang’s blueprint for the psychological procedural thriller remains significant in cinema history, as was his influential use of sound, rendering his ghastly subject—a serial killer of children—in poetic, paralegal light.
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Lang’s blueprint for the psychological procedural thriller remains significant in cinema history, as was his influential use of sound, rendering his ghastly subject—a serial killer of children—in poetic, paralegal light.
A lesser effort by Lang as his Hitchcockian-lite crime noir sees a writer who had inadvertently killed his maid trying to implicate his brother in the covering up of the murder.