M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Mastermind

The Godfather

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

A cup and ball game

A ball

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

A bounty

A job

Liquor
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
A speakeasy

An apartment

An office building

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

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Optimistic about finding leads

Imagine a pile of new paperwork
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
It is demanded by the German consitution

Der Schränker is not an elected judge

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

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

Water

Cognac

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

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Peeling a piece of fruit
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
His wife, Thea von Harbou

Actor Peter Lorre

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

The Fourth Amendment

Article 51

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

The family of a victim

The police

The school
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

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

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

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 place setting at the dinner table

Her incomplete homework

Empty shoes
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Balloons

Candy

Knives

Picture books
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
Coming out of school

On the swings in an empty playground

With her mother

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

By kicking it open

With his knife

With the arm of his glasses
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?
Steel

Oak

Cedar

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

Shadows

Odd camera angles

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

The child murderer

A bully

A passing car on the street
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?
Red

Blue

Green

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

A pharmacy

Speakeasy

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

Franz

The Man with Seven Watches

Der Schränker

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