M - Criterion Collection
by Fritz Lang
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Actor: Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Peter Lorre, Theodor LoosDirector: Fritz Lang
Cinematographer: Fritz Arno Wagner
Editor: Paul Falkenberg
Writer: Egon Jacobson
Writer: Thea von Harbou
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Movie Reviews of M - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: hard to believe this film was made 77 years ago
Summary: 4 Stars
Perhaps the very first serial killer film ever made--way back in l931!
Although, as far as directors go, I preffer the works of Claude Chabrol (especially Chabrol's The Butcher, over Lang's M), Lang's M holds up pretty damn well.
What you really get here is three films in one: first third feels like a serial killer film, middle third feels like a police procedural, and the last third feels like a crime caper flick.
For me, the first and last third worked exceptionally well. Peter Lorre convincing in the title role. Middle part (with the cops doing what cops do) lagged and felt drawn out, only because we have seen so many scenes like this over the years in other films of this nature.
Friedkin interviews Lang in the two-disk package.
Summary of M - Criterion Collection
Peter Lorre made film history with his startling performance as a psychotic murderer of children. Too elusive for the Berlin police, the killer is sought and marked by underworld criminals who are feeling the official fallout for his crimes. This riveting, 1931 German drama by Fritz Lang--an early talkie--unfolds against a breathtakingly expressionistic backdrop of shadows and clutter, an atmosphere of predestination that seems to be closing in on Lorre's terrified villain. M is an important piece of cinema's past along with a number of Lang's early German works, including Metropolis and Spies. (Lang eventually brought his influence directly to the American cinema in such films as Fury, They Clash by Night, and The Big Heat.) M shouldn't be missed. This original 111-minute version is a little different from what most people have seen in theaters. --Tom KeoghBehind every great suspense thriller lurks the shadow of M. In this, Fritz Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre delivers a haunting performance as the cinema's first serial killer, a whistling pedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial by the forces of the Berlin underworld. Greig's "Peer Gynt Suite" will never sound the same. Criterion is proud to present Lang's seminal film in a new transfer.
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