Though I have the Cahiers-inspired mania for Lang's American period, I agree with the consensus opinion that this is his single greatest work.

I used to think that this, Lang's first American film, was the best of the American period. I don't think that anymore, but this is still one of the essential American films of the 30s.

Lang's most famous film noir is also an exceptionally good one. (Again, though, I prefer another film, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, to this film. However, that film is also unavailable.)

A slicker, more commercial take on the material covered in Scarlet Street. This is an entertaining and powerful film, but it suffers from pulling back where the later film goes for the jugular.

While we're talking about The Spiders, I think this bit of Lang juvenilia is really quite good. (But it's not as good as the unduly obscure The House by the River, which is currently unavailable.)

It's unfortunate that this merely good film overshadows the rest of Lang's oeuvre. It's a marvel of architectural design, but it's also rather obtuse.

This film, which has has the makings of a great thriller (a nearly omnipotent bad guy, huge conspiratorial networks, palpable dread), could have been great if only it had been trimmed considerably.

This was, I believe, the last of Lang's films created through the production company in which he played a serious part. An interesting, albeit minor, entry in his corpus.

Brecht and Lang--it could have been something special. It wasn't. (If you want to see an impressive film in which Brecht had a significant role, track down Kuhle Wampe.)

As yet unseen by me--even though I own it. Of the Lang films I haven't seen, this, with the possible exception of Man Hunt, is the one I'm most interested in.

Owned, not seen.

Not owned, not seen.

Ditto. (I'd really like to see this one, as I've seen the other two parts of Lang's social trilogy.)