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M (1931)

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Reviews Counted:37

Fresh:37

Rotten:0

Average Rating:9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: 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... 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 of moral depravity serves not just as an allegory for the need of justice for all, but as an ominous foreshadowing of the sort of societal hysteria that leads to cultural witch hunts. Originally titled "Morder Unter Uns" ("Murderers Among Us"), M was one of Peter Lorre's (CASABLANCA) first major film roles. Fritz Lang's expressionistic eye plunges into the dark cityscape of Berlin, as he follows the killer whistling down the street, seducing small children with toys and candy, and eventually fleeing for his life. A city paralyzed by fear, and a vast criminal underground network of blind beggars, thieves and murderers, as well as an unforgettable climax notable for its startling statement about the murderous nature which resides within human beings, are all rendered in Lang's painterly cinematography of sharp angles, dark corners and breakneck pacing. [More]

Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Theo Lingen

Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Theo Lingen, Theodor Loos, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Georg John, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Paul Kemp, Rudolf Blumner, Karl Platen, Gerhardt Bienert, Rosa Valetti, Hertha von Walther, Fritz Odemar, Friedrich Gnass, Heinrich Gretler, Lotte Lobinger, Isenta, Leonard Steckel, Albert Karchow, Edgar Pauly, Werner Kepich, Gunther Neumann, Hermann Krehan, Josef Almas, Kurth, Carl Balthaus, Leeser, Hans Behal, Rosa Lichenstein, Carell, Sigurd Lohde, Hugo Doblin, Alfred Loretto, J.A. Eckhoff, Mascheck, Else Ehser, Matthis, Karl Elzer, Paul Mederow, Erwin Faber, Margarete Melzer, Ilse Furstenberg, Trude Moss, Gelingk, Hadrian M. Netto, Goldstein, Nied, Anna Goltz, Klaus Pohl, Heinrich Gotho, Franz Polland, Gunther Hadank, Rebane, Robert Hartberg, Paul Rehkopf, Ernst Paul Hempel, Reihsig, Oscar Hocker, Rhaden, Albert Hoermann, Hans Ritter, Max Sablotski, Alexander Sascha, Agnes Schulz-Lichterfeld, Karl Heinz Stroux, Swinborne, Wolf Trutz, Otto Waldis, Borwin Walth, Rolf Wanka, Gelin Wannemann, Ernst Wulf, Bruno Zeiner, Josef Damen, Maja Norden

Director: Fritz Lang

Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Screenwriter: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Paul Falkenberg, Adolf Jansen, Karl Vash
Composer: Edvard Grieg

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Fascinating early talkie that made Peter Lorre a star as child murderer hunted by all.

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02/24/08
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
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Peter Lorre's finest performance, and a truly significant socially-themed film.

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06/29/07
Cole Smithey
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03/16/07
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

The moral issues are complex and deftly handled: Lorre is at once entirely innocent and absolutely evil. Lang's detached, modified expressionist style gives the action a plastic beauty.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
02/09/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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An extraordinary, good, impressive and strong talker. Again fine work by Fritz Lang, and his wife and helper, Thea von Harbou.

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11/11/06
Variety Staff
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Variety
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Remarkable early look at scientific and police detection - and of a city in fear

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08/22/06
Michael E. Grost
Michael E. Grost
Classic Film and Television

A subversive film, or more simply a movie brimming over with the ferment of Lang's imagination at its height? You choose.

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06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out

Even after 75 years, Fritz Lang's first German talkie works beautifully as a carefully constructed thriller and police procedural.

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12/06/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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10/07/05
Michael Szymanski
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06/22/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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M is the most dynamic profile of a serial killer in film.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
01/15/05
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
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It’s creepy and masterful with many indelible scenes and a knockout performance by Peter Lorre.

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01/10/05
Mark Robison
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal

It's clear that Lang was ahead of most of his peers in grasping the promise of the motion picture form.

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12/13/04
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
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A rather cold masterpiece.

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12/13/04
D.K. Holm
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03/26/04
Frank Swietek
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very likely the greatest film of one of cinema's greatest directors

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02/21/04
Jake Euker
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Walter Chaw
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

[An] important film which rightly deserves its success.

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