M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?
The Safe Cracker

The Judge

The Mastermind

The Godfather
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?
A balloon

A doll

A cup and ball game

A ball
3 What does the gang offer the street people for surveilling the streets?
A banquet

A job

A bounty

Liquor
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
A speakeasy

An office building

An apartment

An abandoned distillery
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann
Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Optimistic about finding leads

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Want to throw up
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
His boss's identity

What was stolen during the break-in at the office building

How he managed to break into the office building

The whereabouts of the child murderer
7 Beckert's defender in the distillery court scene says he should be tried in court because
The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

Der Schränker is not an elected judge

He is clearly not of sound mind

It is demanded by the German consitution
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Cognac

Whiskey

Beer

Water
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?
Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Threatening someone who is following him
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
No assistance

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

His wife, Thea von Harbou

Actor Peter Lorre
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Martial law

The Fourth Amendment

Article 51

Article 12
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The family of a victim

The police

The school

The newspaper
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
A rocking horse rocking by itself

Her incomplete homework

Empty shoes

Her place setting at the dinner table
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Balloons

Knives

Picture books

Candy
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
Reflecting in a mirror

With her mother

Coming out of school

On the swings in an empty playground
17 How does Beckert try to pick the lock of the door he's trapped behind in the office building?
With a key he found

With the arm of his glasses

With his knife

By kicking it open
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?
Oak

Cedar

Mahogany

Steel
19 What element of German Expressionism does Fritz Lang use to greatest effect?
Dramatic make-up

Odd camera angles

Shadows

Surreal set design
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Pocket watches

Cigars

Mirror

Fedoras
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?
Walking home alone

A bully

A passing car on the street

The child murderer
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Guilty with life in prison

Not guilty due to insanity

We don't find out

Guilty with the death sentence
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?
Green

Blue

Black

Red
24 What space do the police NOT visit during their search?
Speakeasy

Prison

A pharmacy

Mental asylum
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?
Der Schränker

The Security Guard

Franz

The Man with Seven Watches

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