Signing first with MGM Studios, Lang's crime drama "Fury" (1936) saw Spencer Tracy cast as a man who is wrongly accused of a crime and nearly killed when a lynch mob sets fire to the jail where he is awaiting trial. However, in "Fury", he was not allowed to represent black victims in a lynching scenario or to criticize racism. By the time "Fury" was released, Lang had been involved in the creation of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, working with Otto Katz, a Czech who was a Comintern spy. He made four films with an explicitly anti-Nazi theme, "Man Hunt" (1941), "Hangmen Also Die!" (1943), "Ministry of Fear" (1944) and "Cloak and Dagger" (1946). "Man Hunt", wrote Dave Kehr in 2009, "may be the best" of the "many interventionist films produced by the Hollywood studios before Pearl Harbor" as it is "clean and concentrated, elegant and precise, pointed without being preachy."