The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1960 film made in West Germany. It is the last film of Fritz Lang and concerned the further exploits of Dr. Mabuse, a character Lang had used in two previous films in 1922 and 1933.
The movie, based on the novel Mr. Tot buys a thousand eyes by the Polish author Jean Forge, brought the story into the contemporary times and combined elements of Edgar Wallace films, spy fiction and Big Brother surveillance with the nihilism of the Mabuse world.
A reporter is killed in his car on his way to work. Inspector Kras gets a call from his informant Cornelius, a blind fortune teller, who had a vision of the crime but not the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Henry Travers, a rich industrialist, checks into the Luxor Hotel, which has been outfitted by the Nazis during World War II to spy on people in every room. He becomes involved with Marian Menil who is being threatened by her evil clubfooted husband. Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig, purportedly a salesman, who is also a guest in the hotel always seems to be lurking about.These disparate characters eventually get together to solve what appears to be the re-emergence of the long-dead Dr. Mabuse.
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