REVIEW: DER CHEF WÜNSCHT KEINE ZEUGEN / NO SURVIVORS PLEASE (1964). Let's go all the way.
A very odd movie. And if you like Krimis AND odd movies, well, this one here's for you: The boss of a secret organization orders the killings of several prominent figures of politics and science in the midst of Cold War paranoia. Those about to be killed are from all political groups and all over the world. The plan is to put in doppelgangers that will then lead the world into a nuclear war. To accomplish that, there have to be no witnesses of the "accidental" deaths of the targets, as they would be the only ones miraculously surviving those fatal incidents—hence the titles (the translation of the German title is "The Boss wants no witnesses"). The Boss in this case looks and acts suspiciously like Dr. Mabuse, and if this were part of the official Dr. Mabuse series, no one would complain, but then.... this movie is odd. See: The Boss is an alien from the planet Orion and the doppelgangers too are all aliens, replicating the bodies of the dead victims. In come...
