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1931, the gangster genre defined (The Public Enemy, Little Caesar, City Streets), same with the horror side of things (Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Germans rule (Fritz Lang's M; Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant; F.W. Murnau's Tabu; G. W. Pabst's Kameradschaft & Die 3 Groschen-Oper) with the French output not far hehind (René Clair's Le Million & À Nous la Liberté; Jean Renoir's La Chienne).
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