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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780027985
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780027981
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 11073
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1933
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Amazon.com:
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is Fritz Lang's sequel to his flamboyant Dr. Mabuse two-part epic of the 1920s, this time adding subtle use of sound to the creepy effects developed for the earlier film. Once a Moriarty-like mastermind, the haggard Dr M (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has become an autistic asylum inmate who scrawls plans for daring crimes in his cell and exerts an unhealthy influence on his psychiatrist. Inspector Lohmann (Otto Wernicke), the jolly policeman from Lang's M, is puzzled by a series of daring crimes that bear the Mabuse signature, and a gang of thugs take instructions from a shadowy figure who claims after the doctor's death to be Mabuse reborn and is staging a reign of crime apparently designed to bring about the ruin of all law-abiding society.
Though it works best as a textbook thriller, some commentators, including Lang, suggested that the pulp plot was intended to allegorize the evil influence of the Nazi party, with a crime boss who rants like Hitler. The many impressive set-pieces still work, too: the pursuit of a spy through a grinding print-works, an assassination at a traffic light, hero and heroine trapped in a room with a bomb cutting a water main to flood their way to freedom, the persecution of the asylum head by a phantom of his patient, and a last-reel night-time chase. --Kim Newman
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This, the last film by Lang before departing Germany, bears Lang's obsessive attention to precisely calibrated scene composition, and to groundbreaking use of black and white shading and lighting. The plot, detailed elsewhere, is crime thriller 101 with an added element of veiled criticism of creeping fascism within Germany at the time (1931).
A must-see, little-known classic by a film master, this one will leave you gasping for a return to such professionalism and artistry.
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Completed shortly before Lang fled Nazi Germany, "Dr. Mabuse" is a creepy sequel to his earlier silent thriller "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler." With all its talk of master plans and a cast of shadowy henchmen taking orders from an authoritarian voice who issues orders from behind a curtain, it isn't that hard to see the parallels to Hitler. A subplot involving a reluctant member of the Mabuse syndicate (Gustav Diesel) who hopes to flee with his lover Lilli (Wera Lieseem) adds another suspenseful dimension ... Read More
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For all its excitement, action, fantasy, this film would for me live in the history of the cinema just for one short scene...
It deals with a killing at traffic lights as a driver is shot from a car that has pulled alongside his, the sound of the shot obliterated by the sound of the horns of the other impatient drivers... But Lang never takes us right 'into' the incident...
At the payoff we look down from an overhead angle on the cars packed together at the signals: then they ... Read More
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The more I see of Fritz Lang's films, the more and more he grows in esteem for me. This film is no exception. While a sequel to the two-part 1922 film 'Dr. Mabuse: Der Spieler,' it could also be fully enjoyed and understood by one who has never seen the prior film (of quite massive length!), since apart from the recurring title character, it's entirely its own story, with an entirely new set of characters and an entirely new plot. It's not one of those sequels that's a continuation of the events and characters ... Read More
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This review is for the Criterion Colelction DVD edition of the film.
"Testament of Dr. Mabuse" know in Germany as "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" was Fritz Lang's last movie before leaving Germany to escape the Nazis. It was promptly banned in Germany after it's completion until the end of World War 2.
I think it is one of his best films and is very well done. It follows the case of a policeman invesigating a case and clues lead to Dr. Mabuse who has been in a sanitatium for many years. it ... Read More
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