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
M (1931)
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Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 37 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Theatrical Release: 00-00-0000
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 underworld want him dead. Filmed in post-Weimar Germany during the infancy of the Nazi state, this... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Theo Lingen, Theodor Loos
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Screenwriter: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Paul Falkenberg, Adolf Jansen, Karl Vash
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Screenwriter: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Paul Falkenberg, Adolf Jansen, Karl Vash
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Reviews
Top Critic
Fascinating early talkie that made Peter Lorre a star as child murderer hunted by all.
02/24/08
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.
02/09/07
An extraordinary, good, impressive and strong talker. Again fine work by Fritz Lang, and his wife and helper, Thea von Harbou.
11/11/06
Top Critic
Remarkable early look at scientific and police detection - and of a city in fear
08/22/06
Even after 75 years, Fritz Lang's first German talkie works beautifully as a carefully constructed thriller and police procedural.
12/06/05
It’s creepy and masterful with many indelible scenes and a knockout performance by Peter Lorre.
01/10/05
It's clear that Lang was ahead of most of his peers in grasping the promise of the motion picture form.
12/13/04
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