The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse by David Kalat

After conversations with Lang and von Harbou, Jacques agreed to discontinue the novel and the sequel instead became the 1933 movie Das Testament des Dr. Jacques had been working on a sequel to the novel, named Mabuse's Colony, in which Mabuse has died and a group of his devotees are starting an island colony, based on the principles described by Mabuse's manifesto. Mabuse, the Gambler, an Image of the Times and Inferno, People of the Times.Īfter the great successes of the novel and the movie, it was almost a decade before anything more was done with the character.

Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), with a playing time of more than four hours, was released in two sections: Dr. Lang, already an accomplished director, worked with his wife Thea von Harbou on a revision of the novel to bring it to the screen, where it also became a great success. The novel benefitted from unprecedented publicity and quickly became a best-seller. There are even suggestions in some instalments of the series, that the 'real' Mabuse is some sort of spirit that possesses a series of hosts.

The replacement invariably has the same methods, the same powers of hypnosis and the same criminal genius. Mabuse' to later appear, as depicted in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse' may be defeated and sent to an asylum, jail or grave, only for a new 'Dr. Mabuse's agents range from career criminals working for him, to innocents blackmailed or hypnotized into cooperation, to dupes manipulated so successfully they do not realize that they are doing exactly what Mabuse planned for them to do. Mabuse rarely commits his crimes in person, instead operating primarily through a network of agents enacting his schemes. Mabuse is a master of disguise and telepathic hypnosis known to employ body transference, most often through demonic possession but sometimes utilizing object technologies such as television or phonograph machines, to build a ' society of crime.'.

The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse by David Kalat