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The film is a surprisingly good remake of Fritz Lang's German masterpiece of 1931, also produced by Seymour Nebenzal. The director is Joseph Losey, who set the action in contemporary Los Angeles. The film is an almost exact duplicate of the original, but with more emphasis on the sexual perversions that obsess child-killer Wayne, who has a special fascination with the shoelaces of his victims here. Losey's direction, combined with the LA locations, lend a film noir flavor to the work.