Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Yash Wade
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
rodrig58
A very young Klaus Kinski which is silent almost all his screening time, he has just a few lines so, he can't show his talent too much. But, even his silence is great! Peter van Eyck is a very talented and full of charm actor but, in this one, almost half of the film, he's talking with his mother... The script is bad and boring. Watch it if you're crazy about Mabuse... or film in general!
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse" or "Scotland Yard in Pursuit of Dr. Mabuse" is a West German movie from the years 1963 and there are actually a handful more German and English titles for this one. The original language in the film is German and even if there are German films from the decades before that have color, this is still a black-and-white film. Like most of the other Mabuse films from the 1960s, this one runs for 90 minutes. The director is Paul May and two writers adapted the story by Bryan Edgar Wallace, son of the famous Edgar Wallace. The main character is not played by Gert Froebe this time, but by Peter van Eyck, who also should not be unknown to Mabuse film lovers. And there are more familiar faces such as Borsche, Peters, Windeck, Preiss and Klaus Kinski of course. The components in this film are the usual. It is once again police vs Mabuse as the title already says. They can never be sure where he is or if he is even alive. Technology plays a role in here and Mabuse also manages to control people's minds again, which is also a common occurrence in these crime films about him. As a whole, I cannot say I enjoyed the watch very much. Then again, I have never been the biggest fan of these Mabuse films and the absence of Froebe who I always like is not helping either. I do not recommend the watch.
Robert J. Maxwell
I'm not familiar with the whole Dr. Mabuse series but I did recently watch "The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" and didn't find it especially interesting -- Fritz Lang or no Fritz Lang. This one is, if anything, an improvement, though the metric is a just-noticeable-difference.Dr. Mabuse is at large again, though he's supposed to be dead, and this time he's haunting London. German detectives join Scotland Yard inspector Peter Van Eyck to track him down.Well, they certainly OUGHT to track him down. He and his kidnapped British scientist have developed a secret ray that operates like a flash camera. But instead of taking the subject's picture, it hypnotizes him into obeying Mabuse's orders. The spell lasts until the victim wakes up. This is not meant, I hope, as some kind of allegory involving the Third Reich.The print on my DVD was tacky -- really fuzzy -- and the score was terrible, 1950s jazz with blaring trumpets during the exciting moments and vibes during the suspenseful ones.What is Dr. Mabuse's agenda, anyway? He has hypnotized just about everybody who counts, including a member of the Royals. Under his spell, there is talk of "a new government." In a James Bond movie, such a Napoleon of Crime would want to rule the world. Here, Mabuse just wants to rob the Royal Mail.There were hundreds of these movies ground out as second features by Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s -- Boston Blackie, Charlie Chan, Fu Manchu, The Falcon, Mr. Moto, The Man in the Brown MacKintosh, The Cowardly Lion, Sherlock Holmes, The Wizard of Oz, Philo Vance, Philo Logy, The Thin Man, The Fat Man, The Mesomorph, The Logical Positivist. They came and went without much notice except that they wound up somehow in the stash of Turner Movie Classics. That, alas, is the only immortality this movie deserves.Hypnosis ray, my foot!
Boba_Fett1138
It's a good thing they tried to change things around about and picked a different approach again. After all, this was the seventh Dr. Mabuse movie that was made, so everything had basically already been done before. It's not that the came up with a terribly originally concept are anything like that but at least they changed the settings and went along with different characters again, except for the villainous Dr. Mabuse of course, who is still as evil as ever and unfolds a new plan to take over the world, starting with London this time, using yet again mind controlling technologies.The story is of course quite ridicules but at the same time it also works out rather well, also especially when being compared to some of the other '60's Dr. Mabuse movies. The whole crime/mystery elements of the movie are being handled quite well.So out of all the Dr. Mabuse movies, this one really ain't among the worst, although it obviously also doesn't come noway close to the first three Dr. Mabuse movies, directing by Fritz Lang.The acting in the movie really varies. The one moment it is great, the other its simple poor. The movie also features Klaus Kinski, in a quite early role and also yet AGAIN Werner Peters. He had appeared in 4 Dr. Mabuse movies before, each time in a totally different role, to which this movie also forms no exception. How confusing do you want things to be? Also Wolfgang Preiss reappears again in this movie as the villainous Dr. Mabuse again, for the fifth and last time, though only as the 'ghost' of Dr. Mabuse this time.It's a quite funky movie. It has a typical funky '60's style, that all of the previous '60's Dr. Mabuse movies also had. Still the movie is shot in atmospheric black & white, which also provides the movie with a certain type of old fashioned atmosphere and overall style.Yet another fine, perfectly watchable Dr. Mabuse movie entry.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
