{"id":37878,"date":"2024-12-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37878"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:50:46","slug":"37878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37878","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Testament of Dr. Mabuse&#8221; (1933) directed by Fritz Lang \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z120624zview_testamentdrmabuse.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"549\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Testament of Dr. Mabuse <\/i>(1933)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Fritz Lang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oscar Beregi Sr., Gustav Diessl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Fritz Lang&#8217;s masterpiece. The most tremendous film of the present.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hofmeister, a disgraced ex-police detective, uncovers an underworld criminal organization.\u00a0 Barely escaping with his life, Hofmeister calls police Inspector Karl Lohmann.\u00a0 As Hofmesiter lays out what he&#8217;s discovered, the connection is cut.\u00a0 When Hofmeister is found, he&#8217;s gone insane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inspector Lohmann finds clues indicating that Dr. Mabuse is the mastermind behind the underworld criminals discovered by Hofmeister.\u00a0 Lohmann is puzzled to learn that Dr. Mabuse went mad ten years prior.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been housed at Professor Baum&#8217;s asylum.\u00a0 Dr. Mabuse, locked in his cell with no outside contact, spends his days writing comprehensive plans for heists.\u00a0 Mabuse&#8217;s cell is full of them.\u00a0 Making things even stranger, since no one has access to these plans, is that they&#8217;re being used to commit crimes.<\/p>\n<p>How can that be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nazis banned showing of <em>The Testament of Dr. Mabuse<\/em> because it might &#8220;incite people to anti-social behavior and terrorism against the State&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director Fritz Lang said that he was called to a meeting with Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi Party.\u00a0 Goebbels said that he and Adolph Hitler were fans of Fritz&#8217;s earlier movies but his latest films (<em>M<\/em> and <em>The Testament of Dr. Mabuse<\/em>) could be interpreted as against the Nazi Party.\u00a0 Goebbels then offered Lang the opportunity to direct films for the Nazis.\u00a0 Lang said he would consider the offer.\u00a0 He left Germany not long after this meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz is a master a direction, use of sound (talkies were still relatively new) and tension building scenes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>The Testament of Dr. Mabuse <\/i>(1933)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z120624zview_testamentdrmabuse2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) Director: \u00a0Fritz Lang Screenplay: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,72,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-history","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37885,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878\/revisions\/37885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}