FROM TOP: COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION MARY EVANS/RONALD GRANT/EVERETT COLLECTION;
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1930s
M
1931
With film noir rooted in German
Expressionist cinema, it’s only
fitting that M, shot and directed
outside of Berlin, stands out as
a forerunner for what film noir
was to become in its heyday —
tales of dirty city crime orbiting
around an “anti-hero.”
RELATED:
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
(1932), SCARFACE (1932), FURY
(1936), YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (1937),
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938)
Peter Lorre (top) plays
Hans Beckert, a serial child
murderer, in M.
FILM
HUFFINGTON
09.30.12