Since kick-starting my on-going Fritz Lang retro with a viewing of the enjoyable, if not classic, The Return of Frank James, I figured I’d jump right back into the other retro I was doing concurrently, that being following the cinematic legacy of a shadowy fictional figure, born from a country’s post-war strife, and foreshadowing the birth of a crazed dictator who loomed, funny pencil mustache and all, over the 20th Century, a megalomaniacal Doctor determined, with the help of his mind-controlled minions, to control the world given the oft-whispered name of Mabuse (with both retros having had the same starting point – namely, Lang’s staggeringly ambitious, two-part, near four-hour long silent German masterpiece, Dr Mabuse: The Gambler from 1922). Scream and Scream Again (or, as known in Germany, The Living Corpses of Dr.
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