The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse
Directed by Fritz Lang
Produced by Artur Brauner
Fritz Lang
Written by Jan Fethke (novel)
Fritz Lang
Heinz Oskar Wuttig
Starring Dawn Addams
Peter van Eyck
Gert Fröbe
Music by Gerhard Becker
Bert Grund
Cinematography Karl Löb
Editing by Walter Wischniewsky
Waltraut Wischniewsky
Release date(s) 14 September 1960
Running time 105 min.
Country West Germany/ France/ Italy
Language German

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (ger. Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1960 film made in West Germany. It was the last film directed by Fritz Lang and concerned the further exploits of Dr. Mabuse, a character Lang had used in two previous films in 1922 and 1933.

The movie, based on the Esperanto novel Mr. Tot buys a thousand eyes by the Polish author Jean Forge, brought the story into the contemporary times and combined elements of Edgar Wallace films, spy fiction and Big Brother surveillance with the nihilism of the Mabuse world.

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Plot

A reporter is killed in his car on his way to work. Inspector Kras gets a call from his informant Peter Cornelius, a blind fortune-teller, who had a vision of the crime but not the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Henry Travers, a rich American industrialist, checks into the Luxor Hotel, which has been outfitted by the Nazis during World War II to spy on people in every room. He becomes involved with Marian Menil who is being threatened by her evil clubfooted husband. Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig, purportedly a salesman, who is also a guest in the hotel always seems to be lurking about. These disparate characters eventually get together to solve what appears to be the re-emergence of the long-dead Dr. Mabuse.

Cast

Sequels

The film, the last to be directed by Fritz Lang, spawned a number of sequels, all made in a similar style and produced by Artur Brauner:

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