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The Secret of Dr. Mabuse
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Wikipedia article
'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.Reimer & Reimer p.301
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.
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.
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
* Valry 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.
Reception
Creature Feature gave the movie two stars, calling it dreary.Stanely, J. (2000) Creature Feature: 3rd Edition
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.
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