M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Judge

The Mastermind

The Safe Cracker
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 bounty

A banquet

A job

Liquor
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
A speakeasy

An abandoned distillery

An apartment

An office building
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann
Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Want to throw up

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

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

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

The whereabouts of the child murderer

His boss's identity
7 Beckert's defender in the distillery court scene says he should be tried in court because
Der Schränker is not an elected judge

It is demanded by the German consitution

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

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

Beer

Water

Whiskey
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

Threatening someone who is following him

Peeling a piece of fruit
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
Actor Peter Lorre

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

No assistance

His wife, Thea von Harbou
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Article 51

Article 12

The Fourth Amendment

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

The newspaper

The police

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

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
Her place setting at the dinner table

Her incomplete homework

Empty shoes

A rocking horse rocking by itself
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Balloons

Knives

Picture books

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

Coming out of school

On the swings in an empty playground

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 his knife

With a key he found

By kicking it open

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

Cedar

Oak

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

Surreal set design

Shadows

Odd camera angles
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Pocket watches

Mirror

Cigars

Fedoras
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?
A bully

The child murderer

A passing car on the street

Walking home alone
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Guilty with the death sentence

We don't find out

Not guilty due to insanity

Guilty with life in prison
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?
Green

Black

Blue

Red
24 What space do the police NOT visit during their search?
Prison

A pharmacy

Mental asylum

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

The Man with Seven Watches

Der Schränker

The Security Guard

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