Le diabolique docteur Mabuse

Titre original : Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse

1960
1h 43m

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Fritz Lang, Dawn Addams, and Peter van Eyck in Le diabolique docteur Mabuse (1960)

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Crime Mystery Thriller

Dans l'Allemagne des années 1960, le Docteur Mabuse, véritable génie du crime, hypnotise ses victimes et utilise le matériel de surveillance d'un hôtel pour voler la technologie nucléaire d'... Tout lireDans l'Allemagne des années 1960, le Docteur Mabuse, véritable génie du crime, hypnotise ses victimes et utilise le matériel de surveillance d'un hôtel pour voler la technologie nucléaire d'un industriel américain.Dans l'Allemagne des années 1960, le Docteur Mabuse, véritable génie du crime, hypnotise ses victimes et utilise le matériel de surveillance d'un hôtel pour voler la technologie nucléaire d'un industriel américain.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,9/10

3,9 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 2 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Fritz Lang's final directorial project.

Gaffes
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.

Citations
Henry B. Travers: Try to relax. You know what you're doing just doesn't make sense. There's no way back. You're young and quite beautiful. Yes, you should know that. Please, give life another chance. If you jump you might not die instantly. You might linger on for months. Wake up and find that you're a cripple. Think about it.
Marion Menil: It's hopeless. Too scared.
Henry B. Travers: Give me your hand. Come, reach out to me. You can do it.
man in crowd: Thank God. Otherwise I couldn't eat any supper at all tonight.

Autres 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.

Connexions
Edited into Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse (2018)

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7/10

Who's The Mad Dr. M?

Fritz Lang's "Die 1000 Augen Des Dr. Mabuse" aka. "The Thousand Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse" of 1960 is, after 27 years, the third movie on the arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse, the first one made after World War 2, and Lang's last movie as a director. Although not brilliant in any of its aspects, this is a very well-acted, highly entertaining and original mystery that maintains its suspense and stays interesting throughout its 100 minutes, as it cleverly bears more than one surprise.

After a reporter is murdered on his way to a TV station in Wiesbaden, Comissioner Kras' (Gert Fröbe) investigations lead him to a local luxury hotel. As the investigations are dragging on without progress, Kras is offered the help of a mysterious blind psychic...

The acting in "The 1,000 Eyes Of Dr Mabuse" is generally very good, especially Gert Fröbe, who would play the arch villain "Goldfinger" in the greatest James Bond movie four years later, delivers a great performance as the rough-and-ready police commissioner Kras. Further great performances come from Wolfgang Preiss, Dawn Addams, and Werner Peters, who plays and obtrusive insurance salesman. The movie remains interesting all the time, as there's one little twist after another, and just when you think that something was predictable, another twist is coming up. One noticeable quality of this movie is that director Lang, who had fled to the United States in the years of Naziism, dares to mention the Nazi times in the movie, which (allthough only mentioned casually once or twice) was more than rare in 1960, a time when popular German movies usually remained as silent as possible about this "unpleasant" subject.

"Die 1000 Augen Des Dr. Mabuse" is not one of Fritz Lang's masterpieces, but it definitely is a highly entertaining and clever mystery, that should not leave anybody bored. Recommended!