Of all the directors associated with Film Noir, Fritz Lang is the master. His films, rigorously examining the evil in men, were constructed with such precision that even the placement of a chair in the background seems to suggest a vast criminal conspiracy. The brooding moral intensity of his work comes from an understanding that we will all be judged--the man who commits a murder for a woman, the woman who pushes a man to the brink, the town that gets lost in hysteria. No one is safe... not even the audience!