Directed by Paul May and written by Ladislas Fodor from a story idea by Bryan Edgar Wallace, this time Dr. Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss) has returned as a ghost and Professor Pohland (Walter Rilla) and takes back his criminal empire. He then orders the death of a professor who has invented a mind control device, which puts the man’s daughter Nancy (Sabine Bethmann) into harm’s way, ready to be saved by hero Bill Tern (Peter van Eyck).

The thing I don’t like about this movie? Tern’s elderly mother (Agnes Windeck) has to save the day again and again. She should be the protagonist in this, not her son, who is dumb enough to jump into a river at one point and nearly die. What I did like was seeing Klaus Kinski show up as a cop who gets hypnotized and placed on the side of evil.

These movies have always hinted at a supernatural side of Dr. Mabuse and now, this one pays that off and somehow is one of the slowest of the series.

The Eureka box set Mabuse Lives! includes this movie, an introduction by genre film expert and Video Watchdog founder Tim Lucas, a new 1080p presentation from a 2K restoration of the original film elements undertaken by CCC, a commentary track by film historian and author David Kalat, and an alternate ending. You can get it from MVD.