#437: Dial 'M' For Manhunt, Pt. 1 — M (1931)

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The new TRAP, like so many M. Night Shyamalan movies, openly courts comparisons to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, but its focus on the large-scale manhunt for a serial killer combined with its psychological interest in said killer has roots even further back in film history. So this week we reach all the way back to Fritz Lang’s first talkie, 1931’s M, to see how it frames the search for a compulsive child murderer decades before the term “serial killer” existed, and sort through the film’s many distinctive and influential elements, from its pessimistic view of law and order to its iconic whistling motif. Then in Feedback, a listener prompt gets us feeling nostalgic for some of our favorite and/or formative theatrical experiences. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about M, TRAP, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,
0:18.0	or time to visit your nan time. on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.8	tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
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1:06.2	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being.
1:13.0	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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1:24.3	and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with Scott Tobias, Tasha Robinson, and Genevieve Koski. Before we get started, here's a quick question.
1:32.5	We talked about doing the best of movies of 2024 so far episode, but ultimately decided against
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