August 20 - 8:35pm
Fritz Lang (1936) 94 mins

Lang’s 1st American film is a sharp & terrifying study of mass hysteria & mob rule as the citizens of a small town try to lynch an innocent murder suspect. Spencer Tracy survives, however, & returns to take revenge. Co-scripted by Lang this seminal & still-potent film reintroduces the director’s characteristically fatalistic & pessimistic preoccupation with characters trapped by the machinations of society. With Sylvia Sidney & Walter Brennan.
Imported 35mm print courtesy of Filmmuseum Berlin.* Followed by Die Vier Um Die Frau at 10.15pm. Preceded by Moonfleet at 7.00pm.
* Screens as part of the Fritz Lang Season.