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"Were doing our job because we have a living to make. But this monster has no right to live. He must disappear. He must be exterminated, without pity… without scruples."
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M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, M centres on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer.
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"[to Hans Beckert] You talk of rights… You will get your rights. We are all law experts here, from six weeks in Tegel, to fifteen years in Brandenburg."
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"Girl in Circle: Just you wait, it wont be long, The man in black will soon be here, With his cleavers blade so true, Hell make mincemeat out of you!"
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"Pickpocket with Seven Watches: There are more police on the street tonight than whores."
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"Berlin boasted the biggest film industry in Europe, producing in Fritz Langs Metropolis the science-fiction masterpiece of the twenties and in the same directors M the definitive film noir."
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