M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Godfather

The Safe Cracker

The Mastermind
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 banquet

A bounty

Liquor

A job
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
Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Want to throw up

Imagine a pile of new paperwork

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

The whereabouts of the child murderer

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

His boss's identity
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

Cognac

Whiskey

Water
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

Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
His wife, Thea von Harbou

No assistance

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

Actor Peter Lorre
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Article 12

The Fourth Amendment

Article 51

Martial law
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The police

The family of a victim

The newspaper

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

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

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
Empty shoes

Her place setting at the dinner table

Her incomplete homework

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

Picture books

Balloons

Candy
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
On the swings in an empty playground

Coming out of school

With her mother

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 his knife

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

Cedar

Mahogany

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

Surreal set design

Dramatic make-up

Shadows
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Cigars

Pocket watches

Mirror

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

A bully

The child murderer

A passing car on the street
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
We don't find out

Not guilty due to insanity

Guilty with life in prison

Guilty with the death sentence
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

A pharmacy

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

Der Schränker

Franz

The Man with Seven Watches

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