The first episode, "The Golden Sea," is by far the strongest, a breathlessly paced treasure hunt with one action setpiece barreling into another as unflappable hero Carl de Vogt hangs from a hot-air balloon, wrestles an asp, and saves nemesis Ressel Orla from being sacrificed to the Incan sun god. The adventure continues in "The Diamond Ship," which sticks to rote formula, again involving a ruthless quest for jewels and adding swordplay, tigers, secret compartments, collapsing walls, and a few grossly stereotyped Chinese crooks.
As a formative effort, Spiders anticipates the elaborate architecture in Lang's later work particularly 's Metropolis and his preoccupation with densely organized schemes, but he wouldn't hit his stride until after the German expressionist movement broke out the same year. By the time he closed his career with 1, Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse , Lang had been through the harrowing experience of WWII—his wife divorced him and joined the Nazi party, and he fled Germany under cover of night—and refined his technique on low-budget American genre films.
The last in a trilogy that began with 's Dr. Mabuse —the latter of which had its final reel excised by Goebbels— 1, Eyes shrewdly updates Lang's omniscient, Hitlerian mastermind for the dawning media age.
A rash of unsolved crimes leads detectives to the Luxor Hotel, where the unseen Mabuse monitors the rooms with hidden cameras and microphones and dictates orders through a vast network of nefarious thugs. The labyrinthine plot has satisfying elements of police procedural, whodunit, and old-fashioned melodrama, delivered with the no-nonsense punch of a good American B-picture, but it's the idea of Mabuse that leaves a lasting impression.
For Lang to revive a character that originally echoed the Nazi movement, so long after the war had ended, serves as a potent warning that evil is ever-present among the powers-that-be, even during peacetime.
Fritz Lang. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Reporter Peter Barter gets murdered while driving to his tv station. Commisioner Kras gets a phone call from clairvoyant Cornelius who saw Barter's death in a vision. But a dark force prevents Cornelius from seeing the man behind the crime. Meanwhile the policemen concentrate their activities on the hotel Luxor.
There exist too many links between the hotel and the unsolved crimes. Trevors, a rich American, rents a room in the hotel at the same time. He can prevent the suicide of the young woman Marion Menil at the last minute. But what is the reason for Miss Menil's doing? Why is she initimidated? Could it be that Dr. Mabuse, a genius in crime believed to be dead, is back? Mabuse is on the loose! Did you know Edit. Trivia Fritz Lang 's final directorial project. Goofs Dr.
Mabuse rips a telephone from its cord and throws it on the ground, in a later shot the telephone is still on the table and intact.
Alternate versions Most versions end with Marion waking in what appears to be a hospital. Travers is at her bedside, and the two hold hands and exchange some unheard dialogue as the picture fades to black.
In the French release this scene lasts a few seconds longer, and we see Marion's eyes close as she slumps back against the bed, presumably dying. Mabuse User reviews 24 Review. Top review. Do yourself a favor This is a great little whodunit and an excellent start to the revival of Fritz Lang's great Dr. Mabuse series. It is very reminiscent of the earlier films in the twenties and thirties, particularly Le Testament Du Dr. Mabuse, from which Lang lifts and modernizes many situations.
I said don't read the credits in the title to this review because guessing who is actually the mastermind Mabuse is half of the fun This was the first movie in the new Mabuse series and I would recommend anyone delving into the world of Dr.
Mabuse use this as a starting point especially if none of the silents or early talkies are available in your area. Vigilante Oct 22, Details Edit. Release date December 9, Italy. West Germany France Italy. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Technical specs Edit.
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