Cops and Crooks: Ambiguous Visual Style in The Third Man (Reed, 1949) and M (Lang, 1931)

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Gustav Grundgens as Schränker, the leader of the criminal underworld in Fritz Lang's M (1931).

Trevor Howard as Major Calloway, the head investigator of British Vienna in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949).