M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?

The Safe Cracker

The Judge

The Mastermind

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

A cup and ball game

A ball

A doll

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

A bounty

A job

A banquet

Liquor
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?

An apartment

An office building

An abandoned distillery

A speakeasy
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

His boss's identity

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
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

Whiskey

Beer

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

Threatening someone who is following him

Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Cutting a girl's lock of hair
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 12

Martial law

The Fourth Amendment

Article 51
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?

The school

The family of a victim

The police

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?

Her incomplete homework

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Her place setting at the dinner table

Empty shoes
15 What does the blind vendor sell?

Balloons

Candy

Picture books

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

On the swings in an empty playground

Reflecting in a mirror

Coming out of school

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

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

Mahogany

Cedar

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

Odd camera angles

Shadows

Surreal set design

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

Mirror

Pocket watches

Cigars

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

A passing car on the street

Walking home alone

A bully

The child murderer
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?

We don't find out

Not guilty due to insanity

Guilty with the death sentence

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

Black

Blue

Red

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

Prison

Speakeasy

Mental asylum

A pharmacy
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?

The Security Guard

Franz

The Man with Seven Watches

Der Schränker

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