M-Fritz Lang (1)

[Weedus2]

The whistle Soing is from Classical Music,made by Tsaikovsky (or however he is spelled)

[Perochka]

@Weedus2

Edvard Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt

[KatieM101388]

@5:35...that song...where have I heard that...

[southernelle]

@KatieM101388 "In the Hall of the Mountain King"/the one he whistles. right?

[mvies77]

Pet peeve - White subtitles on white backgrounds!

[AbIratoAbImoPectore]

oh mon dieu naaaannn Elsie?

[coach777777]

Jesus, this is creepy. Watch on!

[UnGatoExtraviado]

solo por q sea de la epoca del expresionismo aleman (y de fritz lang) no significa q sea expresionista, de hecho no creo q la pelicula tenga ningun contenido que apoye esta afirmacion. es buena la peli me gusto mucho el debate del final pero rayos q la gente era mas tonta en 1931

[efraistos]

@UnGatoExtraviado ¿La gente era más tonta en 1931? ¿En que te basas para afirmar esto? Si te refieres a, en general, el público del cinematógrafo, debemos recordar que el cine se crea tan solo 30 años antes de la película "M", que el cine sonoro apenas comienza a funcionar y ya Fritz Lang usa todos los recursos expresivos a su alcance para crear su película. Entiende -y el público también- que el uso de un leitmotif acústico crea tensión, anticipación y suspense. No debían ser tan tontos.

[UnGatoExtraviado]

@efraistos disculpa broder yo se q la peli es increible, solo q justo la habia terminado de ver y supongo q tanto csi me ha hecho creer q resolver un crimen es mas facil de lo q realmente es. pero tienes toda la razon fue una afirmacion idiota

[MsFilmothek]

Many thanks for uploading this masterpiece. It was way ahead of its time.

[ogredm]

So early in the sound era, yet such amazing use of sound. Truly ahead of its time.

[mickram23]

One of the most powerful murder scenes ever and yet the murder isn't shown. That is the genius of Fritz Lang.This film was way ahead of it's time.

[49malena]

el abuelo de todas las peliculas du genre!

[flaminia5]

this film made a history; i found its influence at least in two other classic films:

"Dial M for Murder"

"The third man"

who knows more?

[Sonjay89]

At 6:26 the shot of the stairs from above is a lot like the shot from Vertigo, except without the dolly zoom of course

[flaminia5]

@Sonjay89 great sight, you have excelent eyes!

[aleorangekit]

This movie is an exquisite piece of art.

[yohannbiimu]

At 5:21, this isn't Peter Lorre whistling. Apparently he either could not do it the way Lang liked, or he simply couldn't whistle at all, so that is actually Fritz Lang's whistling of "In the Hall of the Mountain King."

[vachalia]

Both Fritz Lang and F.W.Murnau (the other great German director of the 20's) died in Califormia after leaving Germany. Both were unable to capitalize on their early success overseas. Of all contemporary German directors, I believe that Werner Herzog is the one who was best able to capture the spirit of these early masters in his works.

[Jake9360]

I've always wanted to learn German!

[DiabloPlayer4life]

@Jake9360

Hope you like grammar then :)

[chibinobaachan]

is this the criterion version?

[Ramanujan88]

Wow, we've come a long way with "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"

[skankuser]

I always laugh when she tells them to stop singing the song, and they go right back at it.

A true classic from the Weimar period.

[poppyluv3]

I never thought i would adore an old foreign black and white film until i saw this movie. Fritz Lang is a genius!

[wcbombers21]

This movie reminded so much of "a nightmare on elm st" with the children singing "1-2 better lock your doors" It looks like wes craven used this movie as a stepping stone for elm st. It look like Freddy being hunted down prior to the towns people burning him. This movie rocks!

[benniquaid]

I read somewhere that the whistling was dubbed over by Fritz because Peter couldn't whistle

[Vittorimo]

the tonal quality of the woman screaming "Elsie" is just sublime

[nowUhave]

M was originally intended to be entitled Murderers Among Us but Lang could not get access to any of the German film studios while his project carried that tentative title, because the Nazis interpreted it as referring to them.

(Confession at it's best).

[lilanma]

That's actually a myth. He changed the title in the middle of filming because he thought just M was better. The Nazi party didn't come to power until after this movie was made.

[prettyteabag]

It's maybe a stupid remark, but his whistling tune always makes me think of the Inspector Gadget theme.

[LightStijn]

The tune is "in the hall of the mountain king". Maybe the Inspector Gadget theme was based upon that one. Who knows...

[bastardtubeuser]

i would love to have seen the proper unedited version the way it was supposed to be seen.

[falstaffswims]

One of many beautiful details: the haunting presence of Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King," which most people know builds up to a terrible, violent climax... the murderer whistles the melody up till that point... we never once in the film hear the explosive, violent outburst of brass and percussion, etc., at the height of the piece... all the violence is politely, in a terrible, horrifying way, not shown to us, concealed... or we're spared from it. but we all KNOW how that song goes...

[coreymitchelhoulden]

@falstaffswims. Think you're nuts bud.

[necrodouch]

@falstaffswims it's fortunate that we were sparred from it. i have a theory about why that is, i believe that Fritz Lang believed the world was dark enough during the creation of this movie and he didn't feel the need to add to the depression any further by showing children dying, or even the children's bodies

[brendanpr21]

@necrodouch might also have a little bit to do with the fact that it was 1931 ... ! it was already controversial enough, if it actually showed the murders we probably wouldn't be watching it right now

[necrodouch]

@brendanpr21 true but you have to remember this is a european film, and they are a bit more lax about what is show on film

[abstractthought88]

@necrodouch your right.

[faceofjesusinmysoup]

This movie has some of the best direction I've ever seen!

[sevenirishclubs]

I vote that we bring him back from the dead, and make him re-direct all the movies that should have been awesome, but sucked.

So there won't be any more bad movies.

[firebat000]

In the Hall of the Mountain King/In der Halle des Bergkönigs

[ProyectInvestigation]

What tune is he whistling?

[gloriamartinez1971]

"In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Grieg's Peer Gynt

[cinema0fanboy]

is this Criterion?

[milesgti]

AHHHHH TH&F at its worst :D This film is actually kind of creepy though, lol.

[FilmTraum8]

Great, fantastic movie!Thanks for loading!

[TexTK]

yay for German Expressionist!

[geoffreytylerpayne]

actually this isnt considered german expressionism... that ended with metropolis in 1927

[Triwger]

Argh!! I have to watch this stupid film and right a stupid essay on it for college. What a bum!! Frankley, I could do with a hug and perhaps a cider.

[Siru604]

I have to write one too! lol but I kinda like the film so I'm not bummed out.

[590135002]

i'm writing one too and i'm so happy the things on youtube, cause i fell asleep when we screened it in class. i wish i didn't because the parts i saw were awesome

[SEAKGINTZAK]

Hahahaha that happens to me too. I think it's because the class sleeping syndrome or something like that. When we screened "Nosferatu" by Murnau, I fell asleep 5 minutes after the beginning...

[pollsaudio]

M is one of the best movies ever made.  When I finished it, I sat on my couch stunned at how unbelievable it was.

[tortugaXgal]

This movie is fantastic.

[darkprose]

Violence in film should be much like Hitchcock's take on cinematic sexuality: its power is in what is not disclosed. After the pornographic violence the likes of _Hostel_ or _Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning_, to quote Hitch: "where are we to go?" Lang's M is a masterpiece precisely because it makes its violence subjective, implicating the viewer through absence. So much horror today is purely objective, all on the screen. With M, we are forced to complete the unseen.

[NGS712]

dark: I agree.

If violence is going to be visible in a movie, it has to be done tastefully. Constantly showing blood and guts just disgusts the viewer to the point where they don't care about the plot.

If violence is used, it has to be done so it makes a point or makes a deep impression on the viewer rather than just their senses.

If that makes any sense. ;)

[strangejkn]

hahaha, yeah but i don't know, i want the whistle i don't know why, maybe to put it on my phone like a ringtone or something like that, it'd be awesome..

[klj591]

some pre-code stuff really scares the crap out of me.

the fact that it's peter lorre, doesnt help. i used to watch him in animated shorts on tv..that alone is frightening.

fanastic actor though.

[bigpunholla]

So many jaw dropping shots in this movie! Like Peter Lorre's shadow covering up the word murder as he talks to the girl, amazing!

[RollinStone92]

I know, i like the one with the clear dinner plate, and the baloon in the wires.

[quadroonlicious]

I have this on video, but for some strange reason I'm watching it here. I'm to lazy to get off my arse and pop it in the VCR!

[Petyamester]

Thank you for uploading!

[merlinpies]

thanks for this treasure and the reminder of Langs genius,first time i've seen it.Peter Lorre is a monster.

[Ele3tricEye]

lang's genius almost got him killed...the nazis picked on this movie because lang was jewish...they used it in their anti-semitic propaganda, saying that jews are criminally minded...theyd do anything to make a jewish person look like a criminal

[lapislazuli7]

I have never ever heard or read that Fritz Lang was Jewish. Wikipedia says that his mother was Jewish before she converted, that does not make him Jewish.

I do not know where you got that information from.

[LordOrx]

Technically he was ethnically Jewish then. Ethnic "Jewishness" is traditionally considered passed from a mother to her children, at least according to my Jewish friends. He might not have practiced Judaism as a religion, but something tells me the Nazis likely wouldn't have cared, if he had been in Germany during implementation of the so-called "Final Solution".

[TaraMoriah]

Thank you! I lovedit. I wish I could speak German & French I love their films mystiqe

[strangejkn]

i've really tried to get the M's soundtrack, but I just can't, do anybody know how can I get it, or I want to download the Peter Lorre's whistle but I dont know where

[Kingofcorrect]

It's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" BY Edvard Greig

[strangejkn]

yeah thank you very much, i've already have it, i just thought i can download the whistle not the song, but i couldn't find it anywhere...

[christs78]

Lorre's character whistles the tune "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (ger. In der Halle des Bergkönigs) from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1. However, Peter Lorre himself could not whistle -- it is actually Director Fritz Lang who is heard.

[gort451]

The DVD is around $30.00 Thanks for the freebie! It truely is a cinematic classic!

[BestOfTheBestNumber9]

Thanks!

[nyyym]

thx alot

[Kiyoto]

question, where can i get this movie if i may ask.

[Kiyoto]

thank you so much for posting this movie!?!