The Criminal No One Can Catch (1930)
Note: this print runs 84 minutes against a recorded 117 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Gustaf Gründgens, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Inge Landgut, Ellen Widmann, Friedrich Gnaß, Fritz Odemar
Directed by Fritz Lang
M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, M centres on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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