The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (ger

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

. Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1960

1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...

 film made in West Germany. It was the last film directed by Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...

 and concerned the further exploits of Dr. Mabuse

Doctor Mabuse

Doctor Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques in the novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, and made famous by the three movies director Fritz Lang made about the character; see Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. Although the character was designed deliberately to mimic pulp magazine-style...

, a character Lang had used in two previous films in 1922 and 1933.

The movie, based on the Esperanto

Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...

 novel Mr. Tot buys a thousand eyes

Mr. Tot Acetas Mil Okulojn

Mr. Tot aĉetas mil okulojn is the third novel originally written in Esperanto by Jean Forge. It appeared in 1931. It is a fantasy adventure novel. However the absolute artistry of the characterizations, the pure literary language, and the well-structuredness of the novel raise it high above the...

by the Polish author Jean Forge, brought the story into the contemporary times and combined elements of Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....

 films, spy fiction and Big Brother surveillance with the nihilism of the Mabuse world.

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

Doctor Mabuse

Doctor Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques in the novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, and made famous by the three movies director Fritz Lang made about the character; see Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. Although the character was designed deliberately to mimic pulp magazine-style...

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Cast

• Peter van Eyck
  Peter van Eyck
  Peter van Eyck, born Götz von Eick , was a German-American actor.-Biography:...
  
   – Henry Travers
• Dawn Addams
  Dawn Addams
  Dawn Addams was an English actress in motion pictures of the 1950s.-Life and career:She was born Victoria Dawn Addams in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Ethel Mary and Captain James Ramage Addams. Her mother died when she was young, and she spent her early life in Calcutta, India...
  
   – Marion Menil
• Gert Fröbe
  Gert Fröbe
  Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz.-Life:Born in...
  
   – Inspector Kras
• Werner Peters
  Werner Peters
  Werner Peters was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971.Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany.His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang...
  
   – Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
• Wolfgang Preiss
  Wolfgang Preiss
  Wolfgang Preiss was a German theatre, film and television actor.The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932...
  
   – Professor S. Jordan / Dr. Mabuse
• Lupo Prezzo (Wolfgang Preiss)
  Wolfgang Preiss
  Wolfgang Preiss was a German theatre, film and television actor.The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932...
  
   – Peter Cornelius
• Andrea Checchi
  Andrea Checchi
  Andrea Checchi was a prolific Italian film actor.Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974...
  
   – Hoteldetektiv Berg
• Howard Vernon
  Howard Vernon
  Howard Vernon was a Swiss actor.Vernon was born Mario Lippert to a Swiss father and an American mother and was fluent in German, English, and French...
  
   – No. 12
• David Cameron
  David Cameron
  David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....
  
   – Michael Parker
• Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988.He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Bürgermeister Anna * Hanussen...
  
   – Roberto Menil

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
  Harald Reinl
  Harald Reinl was an Austrian film director. He is especially known for the movies he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books .He started his career as an extra in the mountain-films of Arnold Fanck...
  
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• Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse (1962), directed by Harald Reinl.
• Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1962), directed by Werner Klingler
  Werner Klingler
  Werner Klingler was a German film director and actor. He directed 29 films between 1936 and 1968.He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Titanic...
  
  , a remake of the 1933 film.
• Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse
  Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse
  Scotland Yard vs. Dr Mabuse is a 1963 German crime film directed by Paul May and starring Peter van Eyck.-Cast:* Peter van Eyck - Major Bill Tern* Sabine Bethmann - Nancy Masterson* Dieter Borsche - George Cockstone* Werner Peters - Inspektor Vulpius...
  
  (1963), directed by Paul May
  Paul May
  Paul May was a German film director. He directed 40 films between 1935 and 1972.He was born in Munich, Germany and died in Taufkirchen, Germany.-External links:...
  
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• Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse (1963), directed by Hugo Fregonese
  Hugo Fregonese
  Hugo Fregonese was an Argentine film director who worked both in Hollywood and in Argentina....
  
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