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The Secret of Dr. Mabuse or The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (German: Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1964 Franco-German-Italian international co-production science fiction Eurospy crime film directed by Hugo Fregonese and Victor De Santis and starring Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse and Yvonne Furneaux. It was a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. The film was the last in a series of films which had revived the Weimar era character Doctor Mabuse.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.
Plot
British Secret Service agent Major Anders investigates Professor Larsen who has invented a death ray on his island. Arch criminal Dr. Mabuse is among the parties anxious to get their hands on this new technology. Anders leads an army of frogmen to stop Larsen and Mabuse.
Cast
Peter van Eyck as Maj. Bob Anders
O.E. Hasse as Prof. Larsen
Yvonne Furneaux as Gilda Larsen (dubbed by Edith Elsholtzt)
Rika Dialina as Judy
Wolfgang Preiss as Dr. Mabuse's ghost
Walter Rilla as Prof. Pohland
Ernst Schroder as Chefarzt
Robert Beatty as Col. Matson (dubbed by Heinz Giese)
Valéry Inkijinoff as Dr. Krishna (dubbed by Fritz Tillmann)
Dieter Eppler as Kaspar (dubbed by Alexander Welbat)
Claudio Gora as Direktor Botani alias "Dr. Mabuse" (dubbed by Erich Fiedler)
Gustavo Rojo as Mario Monta (dubbed by Gerd Martienzen)
Massimo Pietrobon as Jason Monta (dubbed by Friedrich Schoenfelder)
Charles Fawcett as Cmdr. Adams (dubbed by Siegfried Schürenberg)
Leo Genn as Adm. Quency (dubbed by Arnold Marquis)
Yoko Tani as Mercedes (dubbed by Renate Danz)
Release
The Secret of Dr. Mabuse was released in West Germany on 18 September 1964.
Reception
Creature Feature gave the movie two stars, calling it dreary.
References
Bibliography
Haase, Holger: The Many Masks of Dr. Mabuse: Mabuse in the 1960s. (Kindle 2020)
Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
External links
The Secret of Dr. Mabuse at IMDb
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