In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| David Wayne | ... | Martin W. Harrow | |
| Howard Da Silva | ... | Inspector Carney | |
| Martin Gabel | ... | Charlie Marshall | |
| Luther Adler | ... | Dan Langley | |
| Steve Brodie | ... | Police 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 (as Lennie Bremen) | |
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Benny Burt | ... | Jansen |
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Bernard Szold | ... | Bradbury Bldg. Watchman |
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There is a baby killer loose and the police can't find him. He is a sick, psychotic and confused individual, though guilty. The increased police activity trying to find the baby killer is interfering with the mob's criminal activities. The gangsters are not pleased the intense police attention so the mob decides to find him themselves. The mob bosses send the mobsters out to find him. He is found and the young girl he grabbed is saved. A mock trial is conducted in the basement of a parking garage in front of mass of gangsters who captured him and citizens demanding blood. The baby criminal is defended by a lawyer provided by the mob boss. As the police show up, the mob boss shoots the lawyer defending the baby killer because he is doing too good of a job defending the baby killer. Both the mob boss and the baby killer are taken into custody by the police for justice. As the movie ends and the guilty are led out of the parking garage, we hear the spooky single tune played on a flute ... Written by Hal Wigoda
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
March 1951 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
M le maudit See more »Filming Locations:
Alta Vista Apartments - 255 S. Bunker Hill Avenue, Bunker Hill, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Inspector Carney: Maybe we should widen the field.
Lt. Becker: Bums don't sue for false arrest.
Inspector Carney: We keep on picking up bums and the guy we're looking for could be a professor, a storekeeper, maybe even a cop. We look for him in honky tonks and he might be on a golf course.
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At 00:33 minutes, when the mobster is recruiting homeless men as lookouts, there are two signs on the alley wall behind him. The smaller, at upper left, reads: "Beware of Sneak Thieves". The large calligraphy reads: "When did you write to your mother last?". The latter was a popular choice for homeless missions of the day. See more »Goofs
When the man puts the "M" on his palm, then transfers the mark to Harrow's back, then when we see the mark, it's not only way too sharp and bright for such a transfer, it's also about twice the size of the man's hand. See more »Quotes
Lt. Becker: I just washed out the last bum we picked up.Inspector Carney: Maybe we should widen the field.
Lt. Becker: Bums don't sue for false arrest.
Inspector Carney: We keep on picking up bums and the guy we're looking for could be a professor, a storekeeper, maybe even a cop. We look for him in honky tonks and he might be on a golf course.
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I just saw it at the Film Forum in Manhattan, and the notion that your review of "abysmal" could be the topline comment for this movie is really a shame. Far from having a terrible reputation, this unknown classic is just now being rediscovered. And your description of the conflict between the cops and the mobsters as being like "Ed Wood" says more about you personally than it does about the movie. And to everyone else: this is a lost classic, unfairly dismissed in its day because it was a low-budget remake. The vintage L.A. locations alone make this movie well worth seeing, almost like a documentary of a past that is mostly gone.
And Raegan, I love how you so consistently make statements and then retreat from them, claiming that it's interesting, yet a failure, dated, yet not without merit. Pick a side buddy. I also love how you say that the movie is set in San Francisco (you too, repticicus!). Uh, it's set in L.A., buddies. They're two different cities, and they're about 6 hours away from each other on the 5.