there was a question as to whether or not the Testament of Dr Mabuse
was a sequel to Dr Mabuse, Der Spieler (Mabuse the Gambler)
well I popped in the Criterion restoration dvd and so far there have
been 2 connections mentioned
1) early in the film, when the head of the insane asylum is giving a
class, he talks about the sequence that ended the first film
concerning the elongated shoot-out that resulted in the deaths of
some gang members, and the capture of others, including Mabuse, who
had gone insane at the end of the movie, before he was captured.
2) I'm at 55 minutes in and the lab technician has just identified
the name that Hofmeister had scratched into a window pane as a
message - Mabuse.
So Inspector Lohman is in his office trying to recall who Mabuse was
when he has the epiphany = "Herr Dr Mabuse" to which his assistant
who is up at a higher level on a ladder retrieving some files and he
says "Yes Herr Kommissar, cases from 1920-1921, Mabuse Der Spieler"
so there can be no doubt that this is a sequel (as I already knew)
but while I am here, I actually wonder if Fritz Lang intended the
Mabuse films and M as something of a sequence of tales, as in M, the
Homicide Chief is none other than..... Inspector Lohman, also played
by Otto Wernicke. Glad I watched M earlier this week on HULU
I may have to find my Fritz Lang book written by Peter Bogdanovich to
find out some info if there is any
Rich
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