M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Godfather

The Safe Cracker

The Judge
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?
A cup and ball game

A ball

A doll

A balloon
3 What does the gang offer the street people for surveilling the streets?
Liquor

A job

A bounty

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

An office building

A speakeasy

An abandoned distillery
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann
Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Want to throw up

Optimistic about finding leads
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
How he managed to break into the office building

His boss's identity

What was stolen during the break-in at 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
Der Schränker is not an elected judge

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

It is demanded by the German consitution

He is clearly not of sound mind
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Water

Cognac

Beer

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

Peeling a piece of fruit

Threatening someone who is following him

Carving his initials at a crime scene
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
Actor Peter Lorre

His wife, Thea von Harbou

No assistance

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst
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 newspaper

The family of a victim

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

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

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
Her place setting at the dinner table

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Empty shoes

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

Knives

Picture books

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?
With a key he found

With the arm of his glasses

By kicking it open

With his knife
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?
Mahogany

Steel

Cedar

Oak
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?
Pocket watches

Fedoras

Cigars

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

A bully

A passing car on the street

Walking home alone
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
We don't find out

Guilty with life in prison

Guilty with the death sentence

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

Black

Red

Blue
24 What space do the police NOT visit during their search?
Mental asylum

A pharmacy

Prison

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

Franz

The Man with Seven Watches

The Security Guard

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