IF DR. MABUSE IS OUT OF HIS MIND,
JUST WHOSE MIND IS HE IN?
Welcome to a world of mad scientists, grumbly cops, secret agents, and swashbuckling heroes. Of femme fatales and damsels in distress. Of double- and triple-agents. Of false fronts, false bottoms, disguises, deceptions, lies, and intrigue. A world where a mad genius escapes death (repeatedly) to terrorize the world in his unyielding quest for world domination.
A world where evil lurks in churches, madhouses, prisons, opera houses and luxury hotels. Where the good guys put up facades too, camouflaged as an optometry clinic, a brothel, a planetarium. Where everyday objects like earrings, flowers, telephones, and cameras can be sinister tools of evil. Where unmarked vans spew flames, flowers explode, and hit men roam the shadows firing steel needles into their victim’s brains.
A world of hypnosis, telepathy, prescient dreams and mind control. Of trap doors, evil clowns, death rays, invisible men, zombies, and frogmen. Of Friday the 13th, Operation X, and Operation Archimedes. A place where no one is who they seem, and nothing is real.
“You have only one Lord and Master, Doctor Mabuse!”
THE WEIRD WORLD OF DR MABUSE
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Parts 1 and 2
Director: Fritz Lang; Producer: Erich Pommer; Screenplay: Fritz Lang and Thea Von Harbou, from the story by Norbert Jaques; 1922
CAST: Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Dr. Mabuse), Bernhard Goetzke (Inspector Von Wenk), Aud Egede Nissen (Cara Carozza), Gertrude Welecker (Countess Told), Alfred Abel (Count Told), Paul Richter (Edgar Hull)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Fritz Lang; Producer: Seymour Sebenzal; Screenplay: Fritz Lang and Thea Von Harbou; 1932
CAST: Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Dr. Mabuse), Otto Wernicke (Inspector Lohmann), Oscar Beregi, Sr. (Dr. Baum), Gustav Diessel (Thomas Kent), Wera Liessen (Lily), Karl Meixner (Hofmeister)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Fritz Lang; Producer: Artur Brauner; Executive Producer: Alfred Bittins; Screenplay: Fritz Lang, Heinz Oskar Wuttig and Jan Fethge; 1960
CAST: Wolfgang Preiss (Dr. Mabuse), Gert Froebe (Inspector Kras), Peter Van Eyck (Henry Travers), Dawn Addams (Marion Menil), Werner Peters (Heironymous P. Mistelzweig), Reinhard Kolldehoff (The Clubfoot), Nico Pepe (Hotel Manager), Howard Vernon (Assassin)
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
CREDITS: Alternate Titles: Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse, FBI vs. Dr. Mabuse, The Phantom Fiend ; Director: Harald Reinl; Producer: Artur Brauner; Executive Producer: Wolf Brauner; Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor; Director of Photography: Karl Loeb; Art Direction: Otto Erdmann and Hans Juergen Kiebach; Music: Peter Sandloff; Released 1961 by CCC Films with SPA Cinematografica and Criterion Productions; 89 minutes
CAST: Wolfgang Preiss (Dr. Mabuse), Gert Froebe (Inspector Lohmann), Lex Barker (Joe Como), Daliah Lavi (Maria Sabrehm), Fausto Tozzi (Warden Wolff), Werner Peters (Boemmler), Rudolf Forster (Dr. Julius Sabrehm), Rudolf Fernau (Reverend Briefenstein), Ady Berber (Alberto Sandro)
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
CREDITS: Alternate Titles: Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse, The Invisible Horror ; Director: Harald Reinl; Producer: Artur Brauner; Executive Producer: Wolf Brauner; Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor; Director of Photography: Ernst W. Kalinke; Art Direction: Gabriel Pellon and Oskar Pietsch; Music: Peter Sandloff; Released 1962 by CCC Films; 86 minutes
CAST: Wolfgang Preiss (Dr. Mabuse), Lex Barker (Joe Como), Karin Dor (Liane Martin), Siegfried Lowitz (Commissioner Brahm), Rudolf Fernau (Professor Erasmus), Werner Peters (Bobo the Clown), Kurt Pieritz (Dr. Bordoff)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
CREDITS: Alternate Titles: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, The Terror of the Mad Doctor ; Director: Werner Klingler; Producer: Artur Brauner; Executive Producer: Wolf Brauner; Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor, based on the screenplay by Fritz Lang and Thea Von Harbou; Director of Photography: Albert Benitz; Art Direction: Paul Markwitz and Helmut Nentwig; Music: Raimund Rosenberger; Released 1962 by CCC Films; 87 minutes
CAST: Wolfgang Preiss (Dr. Mabuse), Gert Froebe (Inspector Lohmann), Walter Rilla (Professor Polland), Helmut Schmid (Johnny Briggs), Charles Regnier (Mortimer), Senta Berger (Nelly), Harald Juhnke (Krueger)
Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse
CREDITS: Alternate Titles: Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse ; Director: Paul May; Producer: Artur Brauner; Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor, based on “The Device” by Bryan Edgar Wallace; Director of Photography: Nenad Jovicic; Music: Rolf Wilhelm; Released 1963 by CCC Films; 80 minutes
CAST: Walter Rilla (Prof. Polland/Dr. Mabuse), Peter Van Eyck (Major Bill Turn), Werner Peters (Inspector Volpius), Klaus Kinski (Inspector Wright), Sabine Bethmann (Nancy Masters), Agnes Windeck (Mrs. Turn), Dieter Borsche (George Cockstone/Joe Rank), Wolfgang Preiss (Dr. Mabuse)
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Hugo Fregonese; Producer: Artur Brauner; Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor; 1964
CAST: Peter Van Eyck (Major Bob Anders), Walter Rilla (Prof. Polland), Yvonne Furneaux (Julie), Yoko Tani (Masuto), O.E. Hasse, Robert Beatty, Rika Dialina, Dieter Eppler, Leo Glenn, Ernst Schroeder
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Jesus Franco; Producer: Artur Brauner; Screenplay: Jesus Franco and Artur Brauner (as Art Bernd); 1970
CAST: Fred Williams, Ewa Stronberg, Jack Taylor, Roberto Camardiel, Moises A. Racha, Gustavo Re, Ava Garden, Angel Melendez, Friedrich Joloff, Linda Hastreiter, W. Kieling, G. Mendez, Jesus Franco