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Duration: 99 94 min

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: In a large German city, a sadistic child murderer is hunted by the police and by the beggars and theieves of the underworld. In German with English subtitles. Starring Peter Lorre.

Complete Record: In a large town, a sadistic murderer kills little girls. The police try to catch him in vain, but in the end he is trapped by the denizens of the underworld and condemned to death by their leader. Fritz Lang's first sound film is a masterpiece of expressionism in which fear and violence lurk in dark alleys and decrepit buildings.(Circulates) --- Presents the story of a psychotic child-murderer being hunted by the police as well as the underworld. Stars Peter Lorre in his screen debut. Based on a true story about an insane murderer in Dusseldorf in 1929. Directed by Fritz Lang. German with English subtitles.,

This film is not rare.

4 users have this film:
Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Kinonik, New York Public Library, Visual Studies Workshop

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