M (1951)
The most gripping motion picture you've ever seen!
Director: Joseph Losey · Writers: Norman Reilly Raine, Leo Katcher
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.
Director
Joseph Losey
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 
John Miljan
Blind Baloon Vendor 
Roy Engel
Police Chief Regan 
Janine Perreau
The Last Little Girl User Reviews (1)
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 zeitgeist) and puts its own slant into the mix. Story here has been relocated to Los Angeles, where there's a child murderer on the loose and not only are the cops under pressure to capture the fiend, but also the criminal underworld since there's too much heat being brought into the vicinity of their o…
