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M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, [2] M centers on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer.
English-language film German-language film Common source material (if any) 24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952) 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1931) The novella Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (Stefan Zweig) Addio Mimí! (1949) The Charm of La Boheme (1937, Austria)
M is a 1951 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey. It is a remake of Fritz Lang 's 1931 German film of the same title about a child murderer. This version shifts the location of action from Berlin to Los Angeles and changes the killer's name from Hans Beckert to Martin W. Harrow.
It casts doubt on whether there was ever a 117-minute version (the length traditionally claimed by sources of the original release in 1931). The text is all in German (with English subtitles); I can't find it reproduced online searching in English. Mathew5000 17:50, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Mädchen in Uniform ("Girls in Uniform") is a 1931 German romantic drama film based on the play Gestern und heute (Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with artistic direction from Carl Froelich, who also funded the film. Winsloe also wrote the screenplay and was on the set during filming.
Mary (1931) is a British-German thriller film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the German-language version of Hitchcock's Murder! (1930), shot simultaneously on the same sets with German-speaking actors. The film is based on the 1928 book Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, and stars Alfred Abel and Olga Chekhova.
For the first time in many years, German audiences had free access to cinema from around the world and in this period the films of Charlie Chaplin remained popular, as were melodramas from the United States. Nonetheless, the share of the film market for German films in this period and into the 1950s remained relatively large, taking up some 40 ...
Le Million was director René Clair's second sound film. He had initially been skeptical about the introduction of sound to motion pictures and detested the slavish devotion to dialogue on display in most early sound films (at one point calling sound "an unnatural creation, just useful for canned theater"), but his stance softened when he realized how sound could be used as a counterpoint to ...