Overall Rating:   3.31 out of 5, including 4 reviews
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Behind every great suspense thriller lurks the shadow of M. In this, Fritz Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre delivers a haunting performance as the cinema's first serial killer, a whistling pedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial by the forces of the Berlin underworld. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" will never sound the same.
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| | Standard 1.33:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | GERMAN: Dolby Digital Mono
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| Studio: Criterion
Production Year: 1931
Release Date: 10/21/1998
Length: 110 mins
Rating: NR
Chapters: 18
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: MMM020
UPC Code: 037429126523
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Category: Movies
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Genre: Serial Killers, Special Editions, Thrillers, Art House, Classics, Criterion Collection, Cult Film / TV, European, Foreign, German, Horror
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Studios: Criterion
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Overall Rating: 3.31 out of 5, including 4 reviews
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LANG'S M - 2.25 out of 5 (6/1/2002)
How well can an early sound film hold up? When its Fritz Lang's 1931
German classic "M", you'd be surprised. The film made an international star out of Peter Lorre as the child killer and assured that Lang would make the transition from his many amazing silent German Expressionist classics to sound films that included some of the
toughest Film Noirs ever made when he arrived in America fleeting
Germany and his nazi-sympathizing wife from the Nazis.
One important thing is the exceptional
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Customer Review
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Wonderful Movie_ A Criterion Transfer Failure! - 2.75 out of 5 (5/29/2001)
I have seen this movie once on a german video-edition and there was no annoying thick white line in the upper part of the picture for nearly 2/3 of the movie, which distracts you a lot while viewing. I don't know what happened thtrough Criterion Collection's transfer work, but something must have gone wrong.
As I know and appreciate their craftsmanship, proven with the restauration of films like "The Third Man" and "The Seven Samurai" (to name a few) where it is perfect through out. So I was di
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Customer Review
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a(nother) masterpiece by Fritz Lang - 4.5 out of 5 (10/4/1999)
Michael Jacobsen already said everything about the film that had to be said so I will just give a small impression of what the quality is.
the audio - for a film from the early 1930's - is so great, you just won't believe it!
well maybe I'm finding it SO good because German is the thing I'm speaking all day long....
but never mind - the subtitles are very good, and even if you don't understand German - let me tell you again: the audio is great ( I bought it on VHS in Austria and it's just
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