M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Godfather

The Judge

The Mastermind
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?
A doll

A cup and ball game

A balloon

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

A banquet

Liquor

A bounty
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
An apartment

A speakeasy

An abandoned distillery

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

Want to throw up

Optimistic about finding leads

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
His boss's identity

How he managed to break into the office building

The whereabouts of the child murderer

What was stolen during the break-in at the office building
7 Beckert's defender in the distillery court scene says he should be tried in court because
It is demanded by the German consitution

He is clearly not of sound mind

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

Der Schränker is not an elected judge
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Whiskey

Water

Beer

Cognac
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?
Threatening someone who is following him

Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Cutting a girl's lock of hair
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
No assistance

His wife, Thea von Harbou

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

Actor Peter Lorre
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Article 12

Article 51

Martial law

The Fourth Amendment
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The police

The school

The newspaper

The family of a victim
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
Empty shoes

Her place setting at the dinner table

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Her incomplete homework
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Knives

Candy

Balloons

Picture books
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
On the swings in an empty playground

With her mother

Reflecting in a mirror

Coming out of school
17 How does Beckert try to pick the lock of the door he's trapped behind in the office building?
With the arm of his glasses

With a key he found

With his knife

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

Mahogany

Cedar

Oak
19 What element of German Expressionism does Fritz Lang use to greatest effect?
Surreal set design

Odd camera angles

Shadows

Dramatic make-up
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Pocket watches

Fedoras

Cigars

Mirror
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?
The child murderer

A passing car on the street

A bully

Walking home alone
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Guilty with life in prison

We don't find out

Guilty with the death sentence

Not guilty due to insanity
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?
Blue

Black

Green

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

Prison

Mental asylum

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

The Man with Seven Watches

The Security Guard

Franz

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