M - Fritz lang
| December 24, 2007 at 6:00 pm | Category: Movie Spotlight |
| by hollywoodjoker | |
Story :
Fritz Lang’s M is a 1931 thriller German masterpiece based on a true story about a child killer, who is being chased by both the police and the underworld criminals. Hans Beckert, played by Peter Lorre, is the child killer who kidnaps children playing in park by offering them a balloon, when their parents are not watching. He usually is whistling a certain tune while buying the balloon.
With the rise of these incidents, the police try to investigate more aggressively by raiding and rounding up criminals. This has the underworld in worry as they decide in a meeting to find the real child killer and get rid of him. So, both the cops and the criminals start their pursuit for the child killer.
M for murder
This film has one best works of the talented director,Fritz Lang who had also delivered the hit, Metropolis.
Starring :
Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert
Otto Wernicke as Inspector Karl Lohmann
Movie Gossip :
Who’s Whistling? : The child killer is shown whistling to the tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King”. But, the actor Peter Lorre could not whistle, so the director Fritz Lang actually whistled for him in the film!
Police inspector Karl “Tubby” Lohmann proved so popular with audiences that he was brought back for Lang’s next film, “The Testament of Dr. Mabuse”.
Before M, actor Peter Lorre was mostly a comedy actor. After his performance he landed an important role in Alfred Hitchcock’s original version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, picking up English along the way.
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Movie Ratings :
Hollywood Jokes Rating : 9/10
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