Greatly admired for the rigorand originality of its construction, Fritz Lang's masterpiece is aterrifying excursion into an urban underworld where it is difficult todistinguish morally between the activities of organized crime andorganized law enforcement. Peter Lorre gives his immortal performance asa pathetic child murderer pursued by both the law and the syndicate. Inits themes, style, and mood, all of which express a kind of entrapmentthat is at once psychological and based in reality, M is not only aprecursor to Fritz Lang's American films but to American film noir ingeneral. Our print, based on a German copy, contains several sequencesnot in other release prints, and is closer to the German version in theorder of its sequences.