The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

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The Thousand Eyes of 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
Preceded by	The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Followed by	Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1960 film made in West Germany. It is the last film of 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 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.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Sequels 4 External links

[edit] Plot

A reporter is killed in his car on his way to work. Inspector Kras gets a call from his informant Cornelius, a blind fortune teller, who had a vision of the crime but not the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Henry Travers, a rich 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.

[edit] Cast

• Peter van Eyck as Henry B. Travers
• Dawn Addams as Marion Menil
• Gert Fröbe as Kriminalkommissar Kras
• Werner Peters as Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
• Wolfgang Preiss as Prof. Jordan /
• Lupo Prezzo (Wolfgang Preiss) as Peter Cornelius
• Andrea Checchi as Hoteldetektiv Berg
• Howard Vernon as No. 12
• David Cameron as Michael Parker
• Reinhard Kolldehoff as Roberto Menil

[edit] 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:

• Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse (1961), directed by Harald Reinl.
• Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse (1962), directed by Harald Reinl.
• Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1962), directed by Werner Klingler, a remake of the 1933 film.
• Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse (1963), directed by Paul May.
• Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse (1963), directed by Hugo Fregonese.

[edit] External links

• Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse at the Internet Movie Database

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