The Thousand Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse

Noted German director Lang returned to his native land to make his last film, a fine, low-budget sequel to his prewar films dealing with the notorious Dr. Mabuse, DR. MABUSE DER SPIELER (1922) and THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (made in 1932, but not released in the US until 1943). Lang had fled Germany after Hitler, impressed with Lang's METROPOLIS, offered him a position as the official Nazi filmmaker. (Lang expected the offer to be a trap and feared the Nazis would learn of his mother's Jewish background.) Lang went to France, where he directed one film. In 1934, in London, he was signed by producer David O. Selznick to a one-picture deal with MGM. He sailed to the...