"Ich kann nicht, aber Ich musst...visit the Museum Gift Shop".

This is how my sense of humor turns.  Here we see Peter Lorre reprising his classic role in the 1931 film "M".  I am used to imagining his character lurking the streets of the city peering in knife shops.  Instead, his meme peruses the aisles of the Mutter Museum of Medicine in Philadelphia, perhaps still unaware of the chalk M scrawled on his coat by his pursuers all those years ago.

Maybe he's changed venues and continents because he wants to see the giant colon.  Who can tell?  Certainly not I.  The idea just made me smile.

If you've never seen the move "M", you should.  It is a classic film that stands up well even though it was produced back in 1931.  It may be a hard film to scare up but you can probably find a site to stream it from.  It certainly isn't as hard as finding an intact print of "Der Golem" from 1915.

Some years ago, the graphic novel artist John Muth did a graphic novel version.   That is if you prefer something a little more current.  He took frame grabs from the original film and adapted the scenes and characters using expressionistic color in water color washes, using mostly the dialogue from the original film for the graphic novel text.

On a related note, this blog post touches off "Peter Lorre Week" (approximately).