Description:

A simple, haunting phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who Is the Murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann...In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

Special Features:

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes and Eric Rentschler
• The long-lost English language version of M, from a nitrate print preserved by the British Film Institute
• Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin
• Claude Chabrol's M le maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus a video interview with Chabrol about Lang's filmmaking techniques
• Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
• Classroom audiotapes of M editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history, set to clips from the movie
• Documentary on the physcial history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
• Gallery to behind-the-scenes photographs and production sketches
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffman, the script for a missing scne, three contemporaneous newspaper articles, and a 1963 interview with Lang