Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]_http://www.ihffilm.com/ihf/5.html_ (http://www.ihffilm.com/ihf/5.html) Like many other old-timers, I have seen Fritz Lang's "M,'' in German with English sub-titles, with Peter Lorre, many times, usually on some TV movie channel, although not lately. As the above site notes, the movie is about a child-killer who makes life so difficult for lesser criminals that the underworld sets out to kill him. The film has been remade at least once but nowhere near as well as The Original. It ranks up there along with von Sternberg's, The Blue Angel, also in Ger man, with Marlene Dietrich, and, maybe, a dozen other foreign classic films, like the Pagnol trilogy [in French] Fanny, Marius and Cesar, all with Raimu, the French actor. -- bob cole