The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse/Le Testament du Dr. Mabusel/ The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse Germany 1933 German-language version Director Fritz Lang Screenplay Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou Directors of Photography Fritz Arno Wagner, Karl Vass...

In the 1930s, the filmmaker Fritz Lang fled Nazi Germany and remade himself into one of the most successful Hollywood directors, producing hit films for two decades. Then he did something unusual: he went back to Germany to make two peculiar movies, one...

[Even] if Fritz Lang's The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse were no better than some of the enjoyable post-Lang Mabuse sequels, one would have had to like it. In fact, The 1,000 Eyes is a superb film, dense, complex, exuberant, mysterious, fully worthy of its premiere setting, and deserving much more than the ignorant indifference that met its arrival. (p. 54) All the world of The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse is cursed. In part, by a continuation of the old curse that was not really broken in 1945; in part, by a...