Die 1000 Augen Des Dr. Mabuse (aka The Thousand Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse) (1960)

A police inspector (Gert Frobe) is contacted by a blind clairvoyant (Lupo Prezzo) who claims he had a vision of a murder. Shortly thereafter, a TV anchorman thought to have died of a heart attack is discovered to actually have been murdered. This is just a beginning of some strange occurrences and coincidences that indicate the notorious master criminal Doctor Mabuse is back! Based on the novel MR. TOT BUYS A THOUSAND EYES by Jan Fethke and directed by Fritz Lang as his final film. Lang had made two previous Mabuse films, a silent in 1922 and a talkie in 1933 so it was fitting his swan song saw him return to the franchise. The movie itself is good fun and far superior to the several sequels it spawned in the 1960s (though some were entertaining). It's far fetched plot is a bit wacky but aren't most films about megalomaniacs obsessed with dominating the world? The characters are well delineated and Lang keeps the excitement hopped up. With Peter Van Eyck, Dawn Addams, Werner Peters and Wolfgang Preiss.