The Secret of Dr. Mabuse

The Secret of Dr. Mabuse
Directed by	Hugo Fregonese
Screenplay by	Ladislas Fodor[1]
Produced by	Artur Brauner[1]
Starring	Peter van Eyck O. E. Hasse Yvonne Furneaux Rika Dialina
Cinematography	Riccardo Pallottini[1]
Edited by	Alfred Srp[1]
Music by	Carlos Diernhammer Oskar Sala[1]
Production companies	CCC Filmkunst GmbH Franco-London-Films S.A. Serena Film S.a.r.l.[1]
Release date	18 September 1964 (1964-09-18) (West Germany)
Running time	91 minutes[1]
Countries	West Germany France Italy[1]

The Secret of Dr. Mabuse or The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (German: Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1964 Franco-German-Italian international co-production science fiction Eurospy crime film directed by Hugo Fregonese and Victor De Santis and starring Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse and Yvonne Furneaux. It was a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. The film was the last in a series of films which had revived the Weimar era character Doctor Mabuse.^[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

British Secret Service agent Major Anders investigates Professor Larsen who has invented a death ray on his island. Included among the parties trying to obtain it is the arch criminal Dr. Mabuse. Anders leads an army of frogmen to stop Larsen and Mabuse.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

• Peter van Eyck as Maj. Bob Anders
• O.E. Hasse as Prof. Larsen
• Yvonne Furneaux as Gilda Larsen
• Rika Dialina as Judy
• Wolfgang Preiss as Dr. Mabuse's ghost
• Walter Rilla as Prof. Pohland
• Ernst Schroder as Chefarzt
• Robert Beatty as Col. Matson
• Valéry Inkijinoff as Dr. Krishna
• Dieter Eppler as Kaspar
• Claudio Gora as Direktor Botani alias "Dr. Mabuse"
• Gustavo Rojo as Mario Monta
• Massimo Pietrobon as Jason Monta
• Charles Fawcett as Cmdr. Adams
• Leo Genn as Adm. Quency
• Yoko Tani as Mercedes

Release

The Secret of Dr. Mabuse was released in West Germany on 18 September 1964.^[1]

Reception

Creature Feature gave the movie two stars, calling it dreary.^[3]

References

Bibliography

• Haase, Holger: The Many Masks of Dr. Mabuse: Mabuse in the 1960s. (Kindle 2020)
• Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

• The Secret of Dr. Mabuse at IMDb

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