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 ball

A cup and ball game

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

Liquor

A bounty

A job
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
An abandoned distillery

An office building

An apartment

A speakeasy
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann
Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Optimistic about finding leads

Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Want to throw up
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
The whereabouts of the child murderer

What was stolen during the break-in at the office building

How he managed to break into the office building

His boss's identity
7 Beckert's defender in the distillery court scene says he should be tried in court because
He is clearly not of sound mind

Der Schränker is not an elected judge

It is demanded by the German consitution

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Cognac

Beer

Water

Whiskey
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?
Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Threatening someone who is following him

Cutting a girl's lock of hair
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
His wife, Thea von Harbou

No assistance

Actor Peter Lorre

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

Martial law

The Fourth Amendment

Article 51
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?
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

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

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
Her incomplete homework

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Empty shoes

Her place setting at the dinner table
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Knives

Picture books

Balloons

Candy
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
Reflecting in a mirror

With her mother

Coming out of school

On the swings in an empty playground
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 his knife

By kicking it open

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?
Shadows

Dramatic make-up

Surreal set design

Odd camera angles
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

Walking home alone

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

Black

Blue

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

Prison

Speakeasy

Mental asylum
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?
Franz

Der Schränker

The Security Guard

The Man with Seven Watches

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