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Noir Alley host Eddie Muller’s introduction and comments following M, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces M, 1951.

Robert Osborne introduces M, 1951.

No messing about in director Joseph Losey’s opening, and star David Wayne is not revealed though the figure seen stalking various children sure resembles him, in producer Seymour Nebenzal’s Hollywood re-make of his original directed by Fritz Lang in Germany, M, 1951.

An interesting single shot scene by director Joseph Losey, Howard Da Silva as the matter-of-fact detective Carney, Steve Brodie his colleague, Madge Blake an emphatic but misguided witness, as the search for the child-killer expands, in the re-make of Fritz Lang’s classic, M, 1951.