"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't someone following you" goes the old joke. Lang captured a ubiquitous mood of pursuit and fear-a mood specifically associated with Germany-in the shadowy, fog-drenched London of Man Hunt. A British big-game hunter, Capt. Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon), has been caught near Hitler's country estate drawing a bead on the Fü;hrer. Was he going to pull the trigger, or was it just a "sporting stalk"? Either way, cynical Gestapo agent George Sanders wants to use the incident to implicate England in the war that looms. The hunter is hunted, all the way back to London, where Gestapo minions imbed themselves everywhere, from tea shop to Tube, suspicious only by being "too perfectly English." (This thriller is Lang at his most Hitchcockian.) Look for mean, lean John Carradine as Thorndike's fascist doppelgä;nger: What you don't fight, you become, was the message. Joan Bennett, touching as a Limehouse streetwalker, delivers it on a little silver arrow, straight to the heart. In 1941, the message was meant for America. (JB)