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Dial M for First-rate Suspense

Dial M for First-rate Suspense

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Mar 20, 2011
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There are so many movies about serial killers these days, that they comprise their own genre, but film's first compulsive killer was introduced in legendary German director Fritz Lang's M.  Not only was the justly-famous film the first serial killer drama, it was Lang's first talkie after silent films such as the incomparable Metropolis.


M, however, is …

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