TY - ADVS AU - Lang,Fritz AU - Harbou,Thea von AU - Lorre,Peter AU - Widmann,Ellen AU - Landgut,Inge AU - Wernicke,Otto AU - Loos,Theodor AU - Grèundgens,Gustaf AU - Falkenberg,Paul AU - Wagner,Fritz Arno AU - Grieg,Edvard ED - Janus Films. ED - Nero-Film A.G. ED - Atlantic-Film S.A. TI - M T2 - Criterion collection SN - 0780029097 AV - CM DVD 00525 PY - 2004/// CY - [United States] PB - Atlantic-Film S.A. KW - Serial murderers KW - Germany KW - Drama KW - Child molesters KW - Feature films KW - Foreign films KW - Detective and mystery films KW - Motion pictures, German N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931; 1.19:1 aspect ratio; Director, Fritz Lang ; screenplay Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang ; camera, Fritz Arno Wagner; editor, Paul Falkenberg; music, Edvard Grieg; Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Grèundgens N2 - A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer ER -