M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Safe Cracker

The Godfather

The Mastermind
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 job

A bounty

Liquor
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
An apartment

A speakeasy

An abandoned distillery

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

The whereabouts of the child murderer

His boss's identity

How he managed to break into the office building
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

Der Schränker is not an elected judge

He is clearly not of sound mind

It is demanded by the German consitution
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Cognac

Whiskey

Beer

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

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Peeling a piece of fruit

Threatening someone who is following him
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

No assistance

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

Martial law

Article 12

Article 51
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The family of a victim

The police

The newspaper

The school
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

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

Empty shoes

A rocking horse rocking by itself

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

Picture books

Balloons

Candy
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
With her mother

Coming out of school

Reflecting in a mirror

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?
By kicking it open

With his knife

With a key he found

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

Steel

Mahogany

Cedar
19 What element of German Expressionism does Fritz Lang use to greatest effect?
Surreal set design

Shadows

Odd camera angles

Dramatic make-up
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Mirror

Pocket watches

Fedoras

Cigars
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?
Guilty with the death sentence

Guilty with life in prison

We don't find out

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

Black

Green

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

Prison

A pharmacy

Mental asylum
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?
The Man with Seven Watches

Der Schränker

Franz

The Security Guard

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