Production Lang placed an advertisement in a newspaper in 1930 stating that his next film would be (Murderer Among Us) and that it was about a child murderer. He immediately began receiving threatening letters in the mail and was also denied a studio space to shoot the film at the Staaken Studios. When Lang confronted the head of Staaken Studio to find out why he was being denied access, the studio head informed Lang that he was a member of the Nazi party and that the party suspected that the film was meant to depict the Nazis.Jensen, Paul M. The Cinema of Fritz Lang. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1969. . p. 93 This assumption was based entirely on the film's original title and the Nazi party relented when told the plot.Wakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 1. New York: H.W. Wilson Company. 1987. . p. 614.
Production Lang placed an advertisement in a newspaper in 1930 stating that his next film would be (Mu.rderer Among Us) and that it was about a child murderer. He immediately began receiving threatening letters in the mail and was also denied a studio space to shoot the film at the Staaken Studios. When Lang confronted the head of Staaken Studio to find out why he was being denied access, the studio head informed Lang that he was a member of the Nazi party and that the party suspected that the film was meant to depict the Nazis.Jensen, Paul M. The Cinema of Fritz Lang. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1969. . p. 93 This assumption was based entirely on the film's original title and the Nazi party relented when told the plot.Wa?keman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 1. New York: H.W. Wilson Company. 1987. . p. 614.