EPISODE #23: M

Lock your doors, hide your kids, and stay inside. There’s a murderer on the loose! Join Adam and Jim as they hunt the elusive killer that has all of Berlin in a panic. In episode 23 we’re discussing the 1931 “talkie” classic from director Fritz Lang: M.

SHOWNOTES

• Criterion on The Couch - Episode #023: M

• M - Criterion

• Directing

  • Director: Fritz Lang

    • Metropolis (1927)

• Acting

  • Peter Lorre (Hans Beckert)

    • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

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    • Casablanca (1942)

  • Ellen Wildmann (Frau Beckmann)

  • Inge Landgut (Elsie Beckmann)

  • Otto Wernicke (Inspector Karl Lohmann)

  • Theodor Loos (Inspector Groeber)

  • Gustaf Gründgens (Schränker)

  • Friedrich Gnaß (Franz)

• Cinematography

  • Fritz Arno Wagner (Cinematography)

    • Nosferatu (1922)

• Music

  • Adolf Jansen (Sound)

    • Titanic (1943) Propaganda film by Germany

  • Paul Falkenberg (Sound editor)

    • Vampyr (1932)

  • In the Hall of The Mountain King - Trent Reznor, The Social Network (2011)

  • Twisted Nerve - Bernard Herrmann, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

  • Theme from Jaws - John Williams, (1975)

• Other

  •  Based on Peter Kurten, “The Vampire of Düsseldorf” aka “The Düsseldorf Monster.”