Mack the Knife
Threepenny Opera antihero
Mack the Knife is the English title of a song from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 1928 musical *The Threepenny Opera*, depicting a charming serial killer.
Bobby Darin's 1959 jazz version became a major hit, making the name synonymous with suave menace.
Someone called Mack the Knife is dangerously smooth—lethal beneath the polish.
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