Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard

1963 [GERMAN]

Action / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 454 454

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The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.


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Reviewed by ZeddaZogenau 6 / 10

West German DOKTOR MABUSE Franchise (Part 5) with Peter van EYCK, Sabine BETHMANN and Klaus KINSKI

Fifth part of the Doctor Mabuse film series

After the previous part THE TESTAMENT OF DOCTOR MABUSE was not so successful at the box office, the West German film producer Artur BRAUNER and his CCC FILMKUNST had to make some changes to the franchise. For the first time, the Mabuse series is crossed with the Bryan Edgar WALLACE series, using the crime novel THE WORLD IS AT THE GAME / THE DEVICE by Edgar WALLACE's son as a template. This enabled the German villain Dr. Mabuse also extends his criminal feelers to the United Kingdom. There was also a change from CONSTANTIN film distribution to the competing GLORIA film distribution run by the busy Ilse KUBASCHEWSKI. So there was a lot going on behind the scenes.

Doctor Mabuse (GERMAN FILM AWARD winner Wolfgang PREISS) is physically dead, but his ideas live on and have now been taken over by Dr. Pohland (Walter RILLA) taken possession. Together with his helpers (GERMAN FILM AWARD (h.c.) winner Dieter BORSCHE and Wolfgang LUKSCHY) he tries to get possession of a mysterious camera. With this device you can make other people do the craziest things, up to and including murder.

But the other side is also wide awake: Inspector Vulpius (GERMAN FILM AWARD winner Werner PETERS) from Hamburg and Major Tern (Peter van EYCK) from Scotland Yard team up. They also get help from the secret service (GERMAN FILM AWARD winner Klaus KINSKI) and from the major's smart mother (Agnes WINDECK), who likes to combine reading crime novels with tea time. And then there is the enchanting scientist's daughter Nancy (Sabine BETHMANN), who is so wonderfully helpless and in need of protection...

Good ideas for the plot do not make a successful crime film. The production by director Paul MAY (08/15 film series // AND THE FORESTS SING FOREVER / VIA MALA) is all too lame. You can tell that Lex BARKER is missing, who provided plenty of action in the second (THE RETURN OF DOKTOR MABUSE) and third part (THE INVISIBLE DOKTOR MABUSE) of the West German franchise. The character played by Sabine BETHMANN also seems all too out of date because of her annoying helplessness. Even Agnes WINDECK seems too sedate, just think of her famous torture performance in DER ZINKER (1963).

Hans NIELSEN and Ady BERBER can be seen in other roles. Ruth Barbara WILBERT plays Princess Diana, so someone must have had a prophetic gift... ;-)

A rather weaker horror crime thriller from the heyday of the genre! There would then only be one more film in the Doctor Mabuse franchise, THE DEATH RAY OF DR. MABUSE.

Reviewed by feindlicheubernahme 4 / 10

Mother knows best

Honestly, when the hero's mum is 10 times better at putting together clues about the case at hand than he is, maybe he should just quit. The routine seems to be that Major Tern's mother makes a deduction, he dismisses it and then, five minutes later, realizes she was right.

Major Tern basically has the appearance of a 50-year-old Ken doll, only with half the personality and a quarter of the intelligence. He's never even realized that his own mother, whom he lives with, wears a hearing aid. And when he discovers that hearing aids can somehow neutralize the effects of the mind control machine (this is the kind of dirty, gritty plot that would taken The Wire to a whole new level of realism), it doesn't occur to him to order a bunch of them for the good guys. Mumsy has to think of it later.

(Hang on a second. What's the military doing in Scotland Yard anyway? Oh, well, the Wallace Sr. Films have all the English bobbies running around packing shooters, so why not?) I'm not too sure what Mabuse's plan is, apart from stealing a few million pounds from a train. I do know he's very lucky that Princess Diana (my god, these scriptwriters can see the future!) just so happens to have a collar containing the exact rare minerals or something that he needs to make something. Okay, I confess. I kind of started zoning out and doing other stuff, like online shopping on my phone, so parts of the film slipped by mercifully quickly.

On the positive side, a big shout out to my boy Werner Peters. He da man. He lends a sheen of class to the Wallace films, many of which don't deserve it. As a super rare treat, Klaus Kinski plays a fully paid-up good guy - well, until he goes bad for a bit. But then he goes good again, so the treat is intact. However, ol' Klausy seems to be being paid by the word and the budget is low, so he doesn't actually say much.

I won't spoil the ending for you, except to tell you that the good guys win. And the bad guys lose. Got that? At least Peter van Eyck has the good grace to look embarrassed when it's time for the cheesy kiss with the much younger woman that normally serves as the final shot for this kind of film.

No, seriously, have a look. Right at the end. Nancy, having totally gotten over the death of her beloved uncle a day or two ago, and having known Tern for the same length of time, has just (only half-jokingly) suggested she'd like to marry him tomorrow. Now van Eyck's supposed to go in for the kiss. The poor guy's blushing like a 10-year-old whose parents have taken him to their nudist camp for the first time. He kisses her on the hand, on the cheek, anywhere but on the lips and then he just holds on to her for dear life and prays to God that the director yells "Cut!"

Reviewed by rmax304823 4 / 10

B Movie.

I'm not familiar with the whole Dr. Mabuse series but I did recently watch "The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" and didn't find it especially interesting -- Fritz Lang or no Fritz Lang. This one is, if anything, an improvement, though the metric is a just-noticeable-difference.

Dr. Mabuse is at large again, though he's supposed to be dead, and this time he's haunting London. German detectives join Scotland Yard inspector Peter Van Eyck to track him down.

Well, they certainly OUGHT to track him down. He and his kidnapped British scientist have developed a secret ray that operates like a flash camera. But instead of taking the subject's picture, it hypnotizes him into obeying Mabuse's orders. The spell lasts until the victim wakes up. This is not meant, I hope, as some kind of allegory involving the Third Reich.

The print on my DVD was tacky -- really fuzzy -- and the score was terrible, 1950s jazz with blaring trumpets during the exciting moments and vibes during the suspenseful ones.

What is Dr. Mabuse's agenda, anyway? He has hypnotized just about everybody who counts, including a member of the Royals. Under his spell, there is talk of "a new government." In a James Bond movie, such a Napoleon of Crime would want to rule the world. Here, Mabuse just wants to rob the Royal Mail.

There were hundreds of these movies ground out as second features by Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s -- Boston Blackie, Charlie Chan, Fu Manchu, The Falcon, Mr. Moto, The Man in the Brown MacKintosh, The Cowardly Lion, Sherlock Holmes, The Wizard of Oz, Philo Vance, Philo Logy, The Thin Man, The Fat Man, The Mesomorph, The Logical Positivist. They came and went without much notice except that they wound up somehow in the stash of Turner Movie Classics. That, alas, is the only immortality this movie deserves.

Hypnosis ray, my foot!

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