M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?
The Godfather

The Mastermind

The Judge

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

A ball

A doll

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

A bounty

Liquor

A job
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
A speakeasy

An office building

An abandoned distillery

An apartment
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann
Want to throw up

Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Optimistic about finding leads
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
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

His boss's identity
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

He is clearly not of sound mind

It is demanded by the German consitution

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

Cognac

Water

Whiskey
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?
Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Threatening someone who is following him

Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene
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?
The Fourth Amendment

Article 12

Article 51

Martial law
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The police

The family of a victim

The newspaper

The school
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

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

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
A rocking horse rocking by itself

Empty shoes

Her place setting at the dinner table

Her incomplete homework
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Picture books

Candy

Knives

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

With her mother

Coming out of school

Reflecting in a mirror
17 How does Beckert try to pick the lock of the door he's trapped behind in the office building?
By kicking it open

With his knife

With the arm of his glasses

With a key he found
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?
Oak

Steel

Cedar

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

Surreal set design

Odd camera angles

Shadows
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Mirror

Cigars

Pocket watches

Fedoras
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?
A passing car on the street

The child murderer

Walking home alone

A bully
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Not guilty due to insanity

Guilty with the death sentence

We don't find out

Guilty with life in prison
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?
Black

Red

Blue

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

Mental asylum

Speakeasy

Prison
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?
The Security Guard

The Man with Seven Watches

Der Schränker

Franz

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