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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Die Unsichtbaren Krallen Des Dr. Mabuse (aka The Invisible Dr. Mabuse) (1962)

After his colleague (Alain Dijon) is murdered, an FBI agent (Lex Barker) attempts to track down his killer. His only clue is a dancer (Karin Dor) in a Grand Guignol stage production that his colleague was attending the night of his murder. Directed by Harald Reinl, this was one of five Dr. Mabuse films in the 1960s that followed Fritz Lang's return to the Mabuse films with THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE in 1960. This is rather silly fun, actually. Nothing to be taken seriously but the kind of B programmer they don't make anymore. It has the feeling of a chapter in a Saturday matinee serial that ends on a cliffhanger that you have to return next week to see the next installment. Dr. Mabuse seems impossible to kill off and he keeps returning. If you go in expecting something intelligent and artfully made, you'll be sorely disappointed but you probably already know if you're in the demographic for something like this. With Werner Peters and Wolfgang Preiss.

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