M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?

The Judge

The Mastermind

The Safe Cracker

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

A balloon

A doll

A cup and ball game

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

A job

Liquor

A banquet

A bounty
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?

An abandoned distillery

An apartment

A speakeasy

An office building
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann

Optimistic about finding leads

Want to throw up

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Imagine a pile of new paperwork
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about

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

How he managed to break into the office building

His boss's identity

The whereabouts of the child murderer
7 Beckert's defender in the distillery court scene says he should be tried in court because

It is demanded by the German consitution

He is clearly not of sound mind

Der Schränker is not an elected judge

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

Beer

Cognac

Water

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

Peeling a piece of fruit

Threatening someone who is following him

Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Carving his initials at a crime scene
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with

Actor Peter Lorre

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

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

Article 12

Martial law
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"

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

Empty shoes

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Her incomplete homework
15 What does the blind vendor sell?

Knives

Balloons

Picture books

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

With her mother

On the swings in an empty playground

Reflecting in a mirror

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 his knife

By kicking it open

With a key he found

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

Cedar

Mahogany

Oak

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

Dramatic make-up

Shadows

Odd camera angles

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

Mirror

Cigars

Pocket watches

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

The child murderer

A bully

A passing car on the street

Walking home alone
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?

Guilty with life in prison

We don't find out

Not guilty due to insanity

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

Blue

Black

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 Man with Seven Watches

The Security Guard

Franz

Der Schränker

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