DVD Extra: Teutonic titans tackle crime, punishment and the censors

22.05.12

Among the army of artists forced to flee Europe because of Adolf Hitler were Fritz Lang and Otto Preminger, both notoriously autocratic directors with a special gift for getting normally problematic material past Hollywood censors. Lang's "Scarlet Street" (1945) and Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder,'' both newly arrived on Blu-ray, were banned (at least initially), respectively by New York state and Chicago respectively but passed the Production Code Authority without much fuss.

Source: New York Post (blog)