M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?

The Safe Cracker

The Judge

The Godfather

The Mastermind
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?

A cup and ball game

A doll

A ball

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

A job

Liquor

A bounty

A banquet
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?

A speakeasy

An office building

An apartment

An abandoned distillery
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann

Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Optimistic about finding leads

Want to throw up
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about

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

How he managed to break into the office building

His boss's identity

The whereabouts of the child murderer
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

Beer

Water

Whiskey

Cognac
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?

Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Threatening someone who is following him
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

Actor Peter Lorre

No assistance

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

The Fourth Amendment

Martial law

Article 51

Article 12
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?

The police

The school

The family of a victim

The newspaper
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

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

Empty shoes

Her incomplete homework
15 What does the blind vendor sell?

Knives

Balloons

Candy

Picture books
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?

On the swings in an empty playground

With her mother

Reflecting in a mirror

Coming out of school
17 How does Beckert try to pick the lock of the door he's trapped behind in the office building?

With his knife

With the arm of his glasses

By kicking it open

With a key he found
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?

Cedar

Mahogany

Oak

Steel
19 What element of German Expressionism does Fritz Lang use to greatest effect?

Surreal set design

Odd camera angles

Shadows

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

Cigars

Mirror

Fedoras

Pocket watches
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?

The child murderer

A passing car on the street

A bully

Walking home alone
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?

Guilty with life in prison

Not guilty due to insanity

Guilty with the death sentence

We don't find out
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?

Red

Green

Blue

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

Speakeasy

A pharmacy

Prison

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

The Man with Seven Watches

The Security Guard

Franz

Der Schränker

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