{"id":14047,"date":"2021-03-01T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14047"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:32:48","slug":"the-testament-of-doctor-mabuse-1962-werner-klingler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14047","title":{"rendered":"The Testament of Doctor Mabuse (1962, Werner Klingler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalat says this was the sixth Mabuse movie, a combination sequel and remake.  It has some typical sequel behavior, taking its villain backstory too far by explaining that brain abnormalities cause his evil power.  Other than this, it&#8217;s a pretty good movie, much better than <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5260\">the 60&#8217;s <em>Fant\u00f4mas<\/em> update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/terrormabuse2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Inspector Gert Fr\u00f6be (fresh off Fritz Lang&#8217;s own <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8071\">1960 Mabuse movie<\/a>) knows only one criminal mind could be behind a counterfeiting ring, but Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss, also from the Lang) is secured in an asylum, so he visits the place and discovers that a doctor (the prolific Walter Rilla, who started out with Murnau&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3057\">Finances of the Grand Duke<\/a><\/em>) is being hypnotized into passing along the mastermind&#8217;s messages.  Corrupt cop Flocke tries to atone by getting into Mabuse&#8217;s gang, but is killed&#8230; Boxer Johnny joins the gang then finds he and his girl are trapped&#8230; the doctor apparently survives to appear in the next two movies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Harmless Mabuse scribbles away while Gert reviews his notes and the bowtie doctor observes:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/terrormabuse1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Trapped boxer:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/terrormabuse3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Mind-controlled doctor takes a drive:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/terrormabuse4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalat says this was the sixth Mabuse movie, a combination sequel and remake. It has some typical sequel behavior, taking its villain backstory too far by explaining that brain abnormalities cause his evil power. Other than this, it&#8217;s a pretty good movie, much better than the 60&#8217;s Fant\u00f4mas update. Inspector Gert Fr\u00f6be (fresh off Fritz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,1114,122,2163,1627,179,181],"class_list":["post-14047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-dr-mabuse","tag-germany","tag-hypnosis","tag-master-criminal","tag-remake","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14095,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14047\/revisions\/14095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}