Tonight's movie: Fritz Lang's das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, a cracking good crime drama which turns quite chilling towards the end, as the Mabuse Empire of Crime employs tactics that are all too familiar from the late 20th and early 21st century history of war and terror. The movie was banned by Goebbels (hmm... shadowy figure ruling thru fear and violence, attempting to overthrow the social order... can't imagine why they'd have a problem with that) and not seen in Germany until the 1950s. Altho Lang apparently said that he'd been offered a job directing propaganda films on the same night the movie was banned. He instead fled to France the next day. Also of note, Lang breaks off an amazingly good car chase scene, esp. for 1933.
Interestingly, Lang made three Mabuse films -- a silent in 1922, Testament in 1933 and another after his return to Germany, in 1960. And, from the listings on IMDB, it looks like there were then a series of ever-cheesier Mabuse films (making his career trajectory somewhat similar to Zatoichi's)
It surprising that I've never gotten around to seeing this movie until now, since I've listened to the Propaganda song countless times over the last 20 years.

and to top it all off, when the movie ended and I returned to live TV watching, I was greeted by the sight of the Yankees losing... good times indeed