Review: Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse/The Return of Dr Mabuse 1961, the first "real" CCC Mabuse
We all know him and we all love him: Dr. Mabuse, the ever-changing enigma, the master-mind behind every single conspiracy, the scientist, psychiatrist, hypnoticist. The man who controls armies, organized crime, and the propaganda machinery of the press. And what about if it was just one man selling cigarettes near a railway station? The silent "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler" was directed by Fritz Lang, who infused more politics into the pulp-novel written by Luxembourgish author Norbert Jacques. With the emergence of right-wing propaganda figures like Mussolini and Hitler, Lang even developed an updated version, together with his wife Thea von Harbou (Metropolis) and Norbert Jacques. Now, we have two Dr. Mabuses: the one in the first novel by Norbert Jacques (basically a Dr. of Psychiatrics who uses Hypnosis for his crimes in a Fantomas-rip-off) and the new one (a political figure using organized crime (methods) to mind-control the whole world), now manifested in "Das Testam...
