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DOKTOR MABUSE DER SPIELER
(Dr. Mabuse the Gambler)
I - Der grosse Spieler
II -Inferno
Germany, 1922
Directed by Fritz Lang
Scenario:
Lang and Thea von Harbou;
based on a character created by Norbert Jacques
Cinematography: Carl Hoffmann
Art direction: Otto Hunte, Stahl-Urach
Ullstein-Uco Film-Decla-Bioscop-Ufa
Cast
Dr. Mabuse Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Yon Wenck Bernhard Goetzke
Countess Told Gertrude Welcker
Count Told , Alfred Abel
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Edgar Hull Paul Richter
Chauffeur Hans Adalbert von Schlettow
Pesch .•............................................................................................................ Georg John
Fine Grete Berger
Karstein Julius Falkenstein
Told's servant Karl Platen
and
Lydia Potechina, Anita Berber, Paul Biensfeldt, Karl Huszar,
Edgar Pauly, Lil Dagover, Julius Hermann, Adele Sandroch, Max Adalbert,
Hans J. Junkermann, Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg, Julie Brandt, Gustave Botz,
Alfred Klein, Erich Pabst, Hans Sternberg, Olf Storm,
Erich Welter, Heinrich Gotho, Wily Schmidt-Gentner
Dr. Mabuse made his bow, via this two-part film, early in Fritz Lang's career, but he was
to reappear often, whether in his own name or that of some other criminal mastermind
(Adolf Hitler, for example, during the war years) or, indeed, as the abstract but
absolutely felt presence of Fate. The Seattle Film Society picked up on the good
doctor's adventures in mid-career when we presented the 1932 Das Testament des
Doktor Mabuse-in September 1974.lt really doesn't matter. The malignant, indomitable,
almost supernatural spirit of Mabuse is timeless, as Lang's four-decades-long cinematic
obsession with him gloriously testifies. We look forward to this long-delayed full-length
showcasing of Mabuse's arrival (the film has been shown previously only in a mutilated
single-feature compression, "The Fatal Passions, directed by Fritz Lange"). And by no
means coincidentally-in regard to the present issue of MOVIETONE NEWS-Lang and
Mabuse can share billing as the fathers of film noir.
Piano accompaniment by Russell Warner