#3 – M (1931)
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Ellen Widmann
Cert: PG
Running time: 110mins
Year: 1931
Accolades:
National Board of Review (1933)
Top Foreign Film
Contemporary review:
“(like) looking through the eye-piece of a microscope, through which the tangled mind is exposed…” – Graham Greene
Electric Shadows rating:
The lowdown: A still relevant, still troubling, still influential masterpiece, Fritz Lang’s M only improves with age. Peter Lorre was forever typecast as the sensitively portrayed child murderer who becomes the target of Berlin’s police force, criminal underworld and the increasingly vengeful mob...
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