Released March 31, 1933, in the US.
Filmed in Germany.
Based on truths.
The story: In a quiet town there is a child killer walking around free.
After a fifth child goes missing the townspeople demand something is done to stop the killer.
Everyone is on edge and immediately accuses anyone seen talking with a child on the street that is not their own.
The killer, a quiet man who roams the streets, not being able to stop himself from kidnapping children when he sees them alone, is just another person to everyone on the street.
When he is one day heard by a blind peddler whistling the same eerie ' In the Hall of the Mountain King' that he was heard whistling the last time a child went missing he is followed.
The suspected killer is seen talking to, walking with, and buying candy for a child.
Finally, he is captured and held by the people of the town who believe he does not deserve to go to jail but rather be killed by them to keep him from ever killing again.
Stars Inge Landgut , Ellen Widmann , Peter Lorre , Georg John , Ernst Stahl Nachbaur , Fritz Odemar , Otto Wernicke , Theodor Loos , Gustaf Grundgens , Friedrich GnaB , Paul Kemp , Franz Stein
Directed by Fritz Lang
B&W
German w/English subtitles
Not Rated
MYSTERY/THRILLER
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