Directed by Fritz Lang in 1931 and staring Peter Lorre as the despicable murderer. This was Lorre's first major role and he plays it brilliantly especially his impassioned monologue toward the end.
The version I watched was assembled from archive material held in Netherlands, Germany & Switzerland to make 110 minutes of the original serial killer film. This was Lang's first "talking" film, in German of course, and Lang is so inventive in marrying sound & vision. Some spectacular innovative techniques are in use including the first example of leitmotif, borrowed from Opera, in film; Peter Lorre's character can be identified on & off-screen by whistling In the Hall of the Mountain King - bizarrely, Lorre was incapable of whistling so we actually hear Lang himself.
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