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?
Liquor

A job

A banquet

A bounty
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
An apartment

An abandoned distillery

An office building

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
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

He is clearly not of sound mind

It is demanded by the German consitution

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

Cognac

Water

Beer
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?
Threatening someone who is following him

Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Peeling a piece of fruit
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
His wife, Thea von Harbou

Actor Peter Lorre

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

No assistance
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Article 12

Martial law

Article 51

The Fourth Amendment
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The newspaper

The family of a victim

The police

The school
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

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

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

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Her incomplete homework

Empty shoes
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Knives

Picture books

Candy

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

On the swings in an empty playground

Coming out of school

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 the arm of his glasses

By kicking it open

With a key he found

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

Oak

Mahogany

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

Dramatic make-up

Surreal set design

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

Cigars

Fedoras

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

The child murderer

A passing car on the street

A bully
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?
Blue

Red

Green

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

Speakeasy

Prison

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

Der Schränker

The Security Guard

Franz

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