The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse - Criterion Collection
by Fritz Lang
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Actor: Gustav Diessl, Henry Ple?, Oscar Beregi Sr., Paul Bernd, Paul HenckelsDirector: Fritz Lang
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Creepy, Engrossing Fritz Lang Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Summary of The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse - Criterion Collection
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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