Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Release Year: 1931
Country: Germany
Runtime: 117
Rating: 6.9 (0)
Languages: German
Director: Fritz Lang
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems.

A mazing tale of never-ending fantasy.

Where anything is possible.

Jim Henson, George Lucas and David Bowie take you into a dazzling world of fantasy and adventure.

Writing by: Egon Jacobson - (article) uncredited
Thea von Harbou - (script) and
Fritz Lang - (script)

Produced by: Seymour Nebenzal - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Peter Lorre - Hans Beckert
Ellen Widmann - Frau Beckmann
Inge Landgut - Elsie Beckmann
Otto Wernicke - Inspector Karl Lohmann
Theodor Loos - Inspector Groeber
Gustaf Gründgens - Schränker
Friedrich Gnaß - Franz, the burglar
Fritz Odemar - The cheater
Paul Kemp - Pickpocket with six watches
Theo Lingen - Bauernfänger
Rudolf Blümner - Beckerts defender

Music: Mark Hinton Stewart
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Plot Outline: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Plot: Someone is murdering children in a German city. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the normal criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
All of the original credits appear only in the beginning with no music.

Goofs: We know about 21 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: Flying wires visible on Sarah and Jareth near the end of the movie when the stairs are floating in the background.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The tune that Peter Lorres character whistles is "In the Hall of the Mountain King," from the "Peer Gynt" suite, by Edvard Grieg.
• Peter Lorre was Jewish and fled Germany in fear of Nazi persecution shortly after the movies release. Fritz Lang, who was half Jewish, fled two years later.
• Contrary to popular belief, Fritz Lang did not change the title from "The Murderers are Among Us" to "M" due to fear of persecution by the Nazis. He changed the title during filming, influenced by the scene where one of the criminals writes the letter on his hand. Lang thought "M" was a more interesting title.

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