Editing M (1931 film) (section)

===Initial response===
A ''Variety'' review said that the film was "a little too long. Without spoiling the effect—even bettering it—cutting could be done. There are a few repetitions and a few slow scenes."<ref name="Jensen. p. 93"/> [[Graham Greene]] compared the film to "looking through the eye-piece of a microscope, through which the tangled mind is exposed, laid flat on the slide: love and lust; nobility and perversity, hatred of itself and despair jumping at you from the jelly".<ref name="Wakeman. p. 615"/>