The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

(1960)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 115 votes

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1960

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: France, Germany

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Peter van Eyck, Герт Фрёбе, Wolfgang Preiss, Dawn Addams, Werner Peters, Andrea Checchi, Howard Vernon, David Cameron, Christiane Maybach, Albert Bessler

Plot

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...

Reporter Peter Barter gets murdered while driving to his tv station. Commisioner Kras gets a phone call from clairvoyant Cornelius who saw Barter's death in a vision. But a dark force prevents Cornelius from seeing the man behind the crime. Meanwhile the policemen concentrate their activities on the hotel Luxor. There exist too many links between the hotel and the unsolved crimes. Trevors, a rich American, rents a room in the hotel at the same time. He can prevent the suicide of the young woman Marion Menil at the last minute. But what is the reason for Miss Menil's doing? Why is she initimidated? Could it be that Dr. Mabuse, a genius in crime believed to be dead, is back?