Fritz Lang’s BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)

RETRO NOIR FILM SERIES
Select Wednesdays at 7pm in Cinema One | $10 per person.

Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Fritz Lang’s BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
(1956, 80 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
After director Fritz Lang vaulted to prominence with such masterpieces of German cinema as “Metropolis” and “M”, he brought his art to Hollywood films. His last U.S. movie is this intriguing film noir about a novelist (Dana Andrews) out to expose the injustices of capital punishment. Working with his fiancée’s (Joan Fontaine) father, a newspaper publisher (Sidney Blackmer), he frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost... and that's only the first twist in a brilliantly layered plot ideally suited to Lang's talents.
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