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1931 Certificate PG
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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer themselves. Once the killer is .. Read more

Starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut, Josef Almas
Director Fritz Lang
Genres Thriller, World Cinema

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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer themselves. Once the killer is fingered, he is marked with the letter M chalked on his back. He is tracked down and captured by the combined forces of the Berlin criminal community, who put him on trial for his life in a kangaroo court. The killer pleads for mercy, whining that he can't control his homicidal instincts. The police close in and rescue the killer from the underworld so that he can stand trial again in respectable circumstances. Some prints of the film end with a caution to the audience to watch after their children more carefully. Filmed in Germany, M was the film that solidified Fritz Lang's reputation with American audiences, and it also made a star out of Peter Lorre (previously a specialist in comedy roles!). M was remade by Hollywood in 1951, with David Wayne giving a serviceable performance as the killer.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut, Josef Almas, Carl Balthaus, Hans Behal, Gerhardt Bienert, Rudolf Blumner, Carell, Josef Damen, Hugo Doblin, J.A. Eckhoff, Else Ehser, Karl Elzer, Erwin Faber, Ilse Furstenberg
Director Fritz Lang
Studio EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 45 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 50 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Thriller, World Cinema
Language DVD: German
Blu-ray: German
Subtitles DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released Production year: 1931

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      In Fritz Lang's startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in post-Weimar Germany during the infancy of the Nazi state, this tale ...
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      Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer ...

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