Stranger on the Third Floor is a dark movie that does have some humor to lighten it up. It focuses on the justice system and how people sacrifice their integrity for material things. It was not a typical "court room" movie where the camera just films the concentrated faces of the jury, the worrisome face of the accused, and the determined faces of the lawyer and attorney. A dream sequence is used to portray the guild of Ward, a young lawyer, who wrongly sent somebody to the chair. In this dream, he was the one that was wrongly accused of murder and sent to the chair. The film style during this dream sequence is German expressionist. Now, he is facing how to handle a murder he himself witnessed. The lighting through out the film was consistently
