M (1951)

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NR 03/01/1951 (US) Crime, Drama, Thriller 1h 28m

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The most gripping motion picture you've ever seen!

Overview

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. 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.

Joseph Losey

Director
Norman Reilly Raine

Screenplay
Leo Katcher

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Top Billed Cast

David Wayne

Martin W. Harrow
Howard Da Silva

Inspector Carney
Martin Gabel

Charlie Marshall
Luther Adler

Dan Langley
Steve Brodie

Police Lt. Becker
Raymond Burr

Pottsy
Glenn Anders

Riggert
Norman Lloyd

Sutro
Walter Burke

MacMahan
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on June 25, 2019

It could be anyone's child, anyone's, no one is safe.

M is directed by Joseph Losey and written by Norman Reilly Raine and Leo Katcher. It stars David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr. Music is by Michel Michelet and cinematography by Ernest Laszlo.

Fritz Lang's original film from 1931 is a seriously classy classic, no doubt about it and although making a remake seems to many like birthing the devil's spawn, the 1951 version exists. How great to find that it's a very fine offering, one that was made at the right time (the film noir zeitgeis... read the rest.

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