译 名 贼状元 / The Testament Of Dr Mabuse / The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse / Terror of the Mad Doctor / The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
片 名 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
年 代 1962
产 地 西德
类 别 悬疑 / 惊悚 / 恐怖 / 犯罪
语 言 德语
上映日期 1962
豆瓣链接 https://movie.douban.com/subject/4908506/
片 长 Germany: 88 分钟
导 演 Werner Klingler Werner Klingler
演 员 Anneli Sauli Anneli Sauli
查尔斯·雷尼尔 / Charles Regnier
Helmut Schmid Helmut Schmid
沃尔特·瑞拉 / Walter Rilla
昆特·迈斯纳 / Günter Meisner
Harald Juhnke Harald Juhnke
Gerhard Hartig Gerhard Hartig
Rolf Eden Rolf Eden
莱昂·阿斯金 / Leon Askin
沃尔夫冈·普莱斯 / Wolfgang Preiss
森塔·贝格尔 / Senta Berger
杰特·弗罗比 / Gert Fröbe
Albert Bessler Albert Bessler
编 剧 拉迪斯拉斯·弗多 / Ladislas Fodor
罗伯特·A·施特姆勒 / Robert A. Stemmle
特娅·冯·哈堡 / Thea von Harbou
诺贝特·雅克 / Norbert Jacques
制 片 人 艾特·布奥尼 / Artur Brauner
Peter Riethof Peter Riethof
音 乐 Raimund Rosenberger Raimund Rosenberger
剪 辑 Walter Wischniewsky Walter Wischniewsky
美 术 保罗·马克威茨 / Paul Markwitz
简 介
When a franchise has reached a certain point it has to decide whether to reinvent itself or start all over again. The latter is exactly the case with The Testament of Dr. Mabuse thirty years after Lang’s original. The usual line is to say that it is not up to Lang’s original but that might make us miss something. Examined on its own the film is a formulaic though competently produced B-movie that has Mabuse-like crimes taking place again after many years. These years include those the evil doctor has spent in a mental hospital lost in some unreachable state of psychosis. That leaves the Inspector (Goldfinger’s Gert Frobe under a different name than he was in Lang’s last film The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse reviewed elsewhere on this site). Who is committing the crimes then? What is the key to the criminals’ movements? How did they get access to Mabuse’s private information on how to pull off these crimes?
The problem with the film is that the audience by virtue of what they have come to see is smarter than the characters on the screen. The film does not have the form of any of the Lang pictures and that combination of predictability and duller visuals comes together to give us an average film. The anamorphically enhanced image is at 1.85 X 1 and is not bad as the film elements are in good shape. However it is still not as sharp or clear as it could be. Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono is used on the David Kalat audio commentary. Kalat owns the company who issued this DVD All Day Entertainment as well as being the author of the book The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse. The other 1.0 tracks are the English and German soundtracks for the film. The German is in particularly bad shape but is still better than the 1.0 on the butchered U.S. version of Lang’s 1932 Testament that appears in the supplement for completists. It may be bad but you can tell from the camera work it is Lang.