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Leo Katcher (scenario revisions)
Norman Reilly Raine (scenario revisions)
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Release Date:
March 1951 (USA) more
Plot:
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children. full summary | add synopsis
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not quite as bad as its reputation more (11 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Wayne | ... | Martin W. Harrow |
| Howard Da Silva | ... | Inspector Carney |
 | Martin Gabel | ... | Charlie Marshall, crime boss |
| Luther Adler | ... | Dan Langley |
| Steve Brodie | ... | 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 |
| Leonard Bremen | ... | Lemke, thug left behind in Bradbury Bldg. (as Lennie Bremen) |
| Benny Burt | ... | Jansen, drunk thug outside Bradbury Bldg. |
| Bernard Szold | ... | Bradbury Bldg. Watchman |
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Germany:86 min (Berlin Film Festival) | USA:88 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (1951) | Sweden:15
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Bradbury Building - 304 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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References The Red Shoes (1948) more
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Fritz Lang's classic 'M' back in the 1930s is a well-regarded classic, which brought Peter Lorre to prominence and a career in Hollywood.
This film, made twenty years later by Joseph Losey, starred light comedian David Wayne as the child-killer, and has much of the same storyline and set-pieces as its predecessor. But is it any good? It has its chilling moments - notably the ones involving the plasticine figure and the bird at the cafe - and Wayne, in a largely silent part, is surprisingly good. But much of the film is a copy of the original, and this lessens its impact. Also, the character of the lawyer who has gone to drink is too prominent, and the underworld search for the murderer who threatens their operation doesn't quite fit on the mean streets of LA, where it did in Germany.
Not as bad as I'd heard, in fact this film is really quite good, but some bad editing decisions (acknowledged at the time of its release by Losey) have done damage. It deserves a nod for unusual casting though.