M [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]
Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Peter Lorre , Ellen Widmann , Inge Landgut , Otto Wernicke , Theo Lingen
Blu-ray
(Wide Screen / B&W)
$39.99
- Release Date: 05/11/2010
- UPC: 0715515057714
- Original Release: 1931
- Source: Criterion
- Region Code: A
- Presentation: [B&W]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 6600
- Sales rank: 8,331
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Fritz Lang's classic thriller about a child murderer who becomes the object of a massive manhunt by both the police and the criminals of Berlin. Film debut of Peter Lorre.
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One of the most distinguished and technically accomplished early sound films, Fritz Lang's M (1931) revealed the expressive possibilities for combining sound and visuals, in a metaphorically loaded story about pre-Nazi Germany. Working from the true story of the Dusseldorf child murders, Lang matches a mother's anguished calls for her daughter with images of an empty stairwell and a lost balloon rather than show the killing, while the murderer's obsessive whistling becomes the calling card for his threatening presence. Beyond the use of sound, Lang takes a pessimistic view of German society, using editing to equate the police with the criminals, while Fritz Arno Wagner's fluid cinematography creates a gloomy night world of shadows and paranoid entrapment. Lang's documentary-like attention to the details of the search, combined with the absence of non-diegetic music, matches the stylization with an equally creepy element of realism. The killer may be sick, but the society pursuing him isn't that much better. A worldwide success and a star-maker for Peter Lorre, M influenced movies from those of Orson Welles to the American film noir of the 1940s; Lang himself left Nazi Germany for Hollywood in 1933. The 111-minute version features an added courtroom ending. The movie was remade by Joseph Losey in 1951 as an allegory of Cold War-era Communist "witch hunts."