M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Godfather

The Mastermind

The Safe Cracker
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?
A doll

A ball

A balloon

A cup and ball game
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 office building

A speakeasy

An apartment

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

Optimistic about finding leads

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Imagine a pile of new paperwork
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
His boss's identity

The whereabouts of the child murderer

How he managed to break into the office building

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

He is clearly not of sound mind

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

Cognac

Beer

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

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

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?
Article 51

The Fourth Amendment

Martial law

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

The newspaper

The family of a victim

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

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

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?
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?
Candy

Knives

Picture books

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

Reflecting in a mirror

On the swings in an empty playground

With her mother
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

With his knife

With the arm of his glasses

By kicking it open
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?
Cedar

Steel

Mahogany

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

Odd camera angles

Dramatic make-up

Surreal set design
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Cigars

Fedoras

Mirror

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

A passing car on the street

The child murderer

Walking home alone
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Not guilty due to insanity

We don't find out

Guilty with the death sentence

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

Red

Green

Black
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?
The Man with Seven Watches

Franz

The Security Guard

Der Schränker

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