The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Harald Reinl
Gert Fröbe
Lex Barker
Daliah Lavi
Wolfgang Preiss
Fausto Tozzi
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Synopsis
A series of particularly brutal murders leads Inspector Lohmann to suspect that the master criminal Dr. Mabuse, believed dead, is actually alive and operating in collusion with the Chicago Mafia. Aiding Lohmann in his investigations are reporter Maria Sabrehm and FBI agent Joe Como, who poses as a Mafia chief and learns of the doctor's plan to take over the city. Lohmann finds that Mabuse in some way controls the local prison, whose inmates and staff have been turned into mindless slaves, committing murder on command. Mabuse controls the wills of his slaves by means of a drug invented by Maria's father, Professor Sabrehm, a prison inmate manipulated by the archcriminal. Como poses as one of Mabuse's human robots to prevent an attack against the city's nuclear reactor, but Mabuse discovers the ruse at the last moment and imprisons Como and Maria. Though they escape and join Lohmann's men in foiling the attack, Mabuse escapes. Lohmann follows and discovers that the mad doctor has been masquerading as the prison warden. After a struggle Mabuse disappears into a fire, but no trace of his body is found.
Director
Harald Reinl
Cast
Gert Fröbe
Lex Barker
Daliah Lavi
Wolfgang Preiss
Fausto Tozzi
Joachim Mock
Rudolf Forster
Rudolf Fernau
Werner Peters
Laura Solari
Lou Seitz
Albert Bessler
Adi Berber
Henri Coubet
Jean-roger Caussimon
Alexander Engel
Zeev Berlinski
Crew
Carl Von Barany
Marc Behm
Artur Brauner
Wolf Brauner
Otto Erdmann
Ladislaus Fodor
Heinz Götze
Hermann Haller
Eduard Kessel
Hans-jürgen Kiebach
Manfred Koritowsky
Karl-heinz Linke
Karl Löb
Gisela Nixdorf
Willi Nixdorf
Peter Sandloff
Charlotte Schmidt-kersten
Ernst Zahrt
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Released in West Germany in January 1961 as Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse; running time: 91 or 89 min; Rome opening: May 1962 as FBI contro Dr. Mabuse; running time: 88 min; Paris opening: January 1965 as Le retour du Docteur Mabuse; running time: 91 or 100 min. Also known as Phantom Fiend.
