Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Lang, 1956): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
Fritz Lang’s final American film will be screened on 35mm.
Chicago Reader review:
Fritz Lang’s last American film, shot in a stripped-down, almost
anonymous style that seems to befit its bitterness and disillusion.
Reporter Dana Andrews has himself framed for the murder of a stripper in
order to expose the incompetence of the police and the fallacy of
capital punishment. But after he’s sentenced, the evidence that will
clear him is lost when his editor is killed in an accident. Once he’s
raised the standard social issues, Lang destroys them all with a
shatteringly nihilistic conclusion. Joan Fontaine is the Lang heroine to
end (literally) all Lang heroines, at least in Hollywood.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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