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The city of Dusseldorf is being terrorized by a child-murderer.
When Elsie Beckmann is found murdered, the search intensifies involving not only the police but the criminal underworld who also hope to catch the killer so that the police presence will subside.
Hans Beckert is identified as the murder and put on "trial" by the criminal mob.
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Cast
Peter Lorre - Franz Becker
Ellen Widmann - The Mother
Inge Landgut - The Child
Gustav Grundgens - The Safebreaker
Fritz Gnass - The Burglar
Fritz Odemar - The Card Sharper
Paul Kemp - The Pickpocket
Theo Lingen - The Confidence Trickster
Ernest Stahl-Nachbaur - The President of the Police
Franz Stein - The Minister
Otto Wernicke - Inspector Lohmann
Theodor Loos - Groeber
Production Co.
Nero Films
Produced by
Seymour Nebenzal
Studio
Kino Productions
Writer
Thea Von Harbou
Fritz Lang
