Average Rating: 8.2/10
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1933 Wide
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Fritz Lang directed this sequel to his nearly four-hour Dr. Mabuse silent of 1922 (often shown in two parts, Dr. Mabuse: Der Spieler/The Gambler and Dr. Mabuse: King of Crime). The film opens with Detective Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) spying on the activities of a criminal syndicate. Not realizing he has been seen, Hofmeister is attacked by the thugs and later turns up out of his mind. He is placed in the institution of Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi), who becomes increasingly obsessed with another
Jan 1, 1933 Wide
May 18, 2004
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[Lang's] ambitious command of the medium...keeps us rooted to our seats from start to finish.
Richly inventive crime thriller
So while lauded by the wine-swirling art-house set, Lang was a German master whose films -- and there are a lot of them -- also appeal to those of us who rarely use the phrase 'mise en scène' in conversation.
If there is a gold standard for DVD production, it was set by Criterion years ago.... the new audio commentary by David Kalat makes this package worth having all on its own.
a tour de force for Lang, his last great film before moving on to the United States
Vivid images and tight storytelling.
The most notorious of the [Dr. Mabuse movies], simply because it was the film that helped trigger Lang's flight from Nazi Germany.
Too bad it's not much fun to watch
Not only the most modern-looking film of 1932, it still looks modern today.
In spite of the efforts of men like Johannes Schultz and Gustave Le Bon, hypnosis was often viewed as something supernatural or other-worldly well into the mid-twentieth century. This was not lost on German director Fritz Lang who made full use of public misconception here in this spin off of M. Though it's science
January 21, 2009
Super Reviewer
Fritz Lang always makes such an interesting study, and despite having not seen the rest of the series, I really enjoyed this film. Lang's oeuvre is a forerunner to many of the films - and genres themselves - that we've come to take for granted. This installment in the series is a gangster film, effectively, except for
March 5, 2009Super Reviewer
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