It might seem redundant to reiterate that, at least to some, but that's the case with his style. He knew how to tell a story with cinema and he is still regarded highly because his films were also groundbreaking works. Metropolis is arguably still the most famous and talked about production crafted by the auteur Lang, but with his noir styling things became particularly interesting when he directed The Big Heat, from a script by Sydney Boehm. Based upon a serialized story, The Big Heat signaled in a new wave of noir filmmaking that was extra gritty with surplus helpings of darkness that permeated the genre even beyond the founding of it as a genre.