M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

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

The Safe Cracker

The Mastermind

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

A ball

A doll

A cup and ball game
3 What does the gang offer the street people for surveilling the streets?
A job

A bounty

A banquet

Liquor
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
An office building

A speakeasy

An abandoned distillery

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

His boss's identity

The whereabouts of the child murderer

How he managed to break into 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

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

He is clearly not of sound mind
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Whiskey

Cognac

Beer

Water
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

Threatening someone who is following him

Peeling a piece of fruit
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
No assistance

His wife, Thea von Harbou

Actor Peter Lorre

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Article 51

The Fourth Amendment

Article 12

Martial law
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The family of a victim

The police

The newspaper

The school
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

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?
Her place setting at the dinner table

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Empty shoes

Her incomplete homework
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Balloons

Candy

Knives

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

On the swings in an empty playground

With her mother

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 the arm of his glasses

With a key he found

By kicking it open

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

Steel

Oak

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

Surreal set design

Shadows

Dramatic make-up
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?
The child murderer

Walking home alone

A passing car on the street

A bully
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Guilty with life in prison

Not guilty due to insanity

We don't find out

Guilty with the death sentence
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?
Green

Black

Red

Blue
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

Der Schränker

Franz

The Security Guard

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