A 2011 inclusion in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, the organization proclaiming it “one of the great post-war noir films,” director Fritz Lang’s 1953 classic The Big Heat continues the “From Hitler to Hollywood” film series hosted by the German American Heritage Center, its September 10 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House treating audiences to a work that, the Registry added, “manages to be both stylized and brutally realistic.”
