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M
(1931)
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Amazing. I've heard so many compliments about this, and now that I've finally seen M, I can pile on! Here's a brain dump...
I've seen Peter Lorre, but this is hands down the best performance I've seen of his. Well, aside from those Warner Bros cartoons where he mixed it up in animated form. What a great sicko.
The emotional tugging by Fritz Lang was pretty effective. There are a few minutes when you feel for his plight. But not in the sense that you want him off the hook -- just that he would be properly tried, not subject to vigilante violence. Still, it's hard to separate yourself from the mob mentality when you KNOW the guy is guilty. Today's juries so quickly tuck murderers away without the death penalty, and sometimes without lifetime jail sentences. M deserves to die. But not at the hands of a mob.