The Secret of Dr. Mabuse

CinematographyRiccardo Pallottini^[1]Edited byAlfred Srp^[1]Music by91 minutes^[1]Countries

The Secret of Dr. Mabuse or The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (German: Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1964 Franco-German-Italian international co-production science fiction Eurospy crime film directed by Hugo Fregonese and Victor De Santis and starring Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse and Yvonne Furneaux. It was a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. The film was the last in a series of films which had revived the Weimar era character Doctor Mabuse.^[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

British Secret Service agent Major Anders investigates Professor Larsen who has invented a death ray on his island. Arch criminal Dr. Mabuse is among the parties anxious to get their hands on this new technology. Anders leads an army of frogmen to stop Larsen and Mabuse.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

• Peter van Eyck as Maj. Bob Anders
• O.E. Hasse as Prof. Larsen
• Yvonne Furneaux as Gilda Larsen
• Rika Dialina as Judy
• Wolfgang Preiss as Dr. Mabuse's ghost
• Walter Rilla as Prof. Pohland
• Ernst Schroder as Chefarzt
• Robert Beatty as Col. Matson
• Valéry Inkijinoff as Dr. Krishna
• Dieter Eppler as Kaspar
• Claudio Gora as Direktor Botani alias "Dr. Mabuse"
• Gustavo Rojo as Mario Monta
• Massimo Pietrobon as Jason Monta
• Charles Fawcett as Cmdr. Adams
• Leo Genn as Adm. Quency
• Yoko Tani as Mercedes

Release

The Secret of Dr. Mabuse was released in West Germany on 18 September 1964.^[1]

Reception

Creature Feature gave the movie two stars, calling it dreary.^[3]

References

Bibliography

• Haase, Holger: The Many Masks of Dr. Mabuse: Mabuse in the 1960s. (Kindle 2020)
• Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

• The Secret of Dr. Mabuse at IMDb