Halloween! Fritz Lang's 1931 Film "M"

Picture credit and discussion by Eric B. Olsen of Fritz Lang's 1930 or 1931 film M. Here is a resource about the director.

Here is a site called Crowe Movies with pictures and a discussion of M. Part 1 and Part 2. The little girl in the picture is named Elsie Beckmann.

Lenin Imports also discusses M. Here is a video review of M by Gary Morris who notes that "M is based on the real-life case of a [1920s] child-killer named Peter Kurten, the "Monster of Dusseldorf."

The entire movie is on Google Video, probably because it is in the public domain.