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Two questions about Lang's "M" (1931)
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Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:32:35 EST
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Greetings. Concerning Lang's "M" (1931),
(1) I have recently read that "M" was the first film to use voice-over
narration, a narrator. Does this gibe with others' (your) info?

(2)  In the longer, digitized video version of "M," in the "trial" scene at
film's end, several references are made to "Paragraph 51" --- one infers this
may be a German statute of the time permitting perpetual psychiatric
hospitalization rather than execution for murder, but I'd like to know a
little more clearly what is "Paragraph 51"?

Many thanks for any help,
Bet MacArthur MSW            Cambridge MA  (617) 499 9490

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