EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964
Fritz Lang made Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and The Testament of Dr Mabuse decades before CCC Film hired him to make a third movie. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse was so successful that CCC released an entire series focused on the master criminal between 1960 and 1964. All six films of those movies are […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
A co-production between France, Italy and West Germany, this is also known as The Secret of Dr. Mabuse. Maj. Bob Anders (Peter van Eyck, who despite his character’s name keeps coming back to fight Dr. Mabuse; here he’s renamed so they don’t have to pay Bryan Edgar Wallace again) is investigating a death ray created by […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963)
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 […]
Murder, She Wrote S1 E15: Tough Guys Don’t Die (1985)
A private detective, hired by Jessica to research an old case, is suddenly murdered. Season 1, Episode 15: Tough Guys Don’t Die (February 24, 1985) Tonight on Murder, She Wrote… Jessica meets Detective Harry McGraw (Jerry Orbach) and they solve the case of a murdered detective. Who’s in it, outside of Angela Lansbury, and were they […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1963)
A remake of the 1933 Fritz Lang film, this finds Dr. Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss) in Hannibal Lecter mode — I get it, Lecter was in Mabuse mode because this comes first, but let me get back to writing this — and trapped in an asylum where Inspector Lohmann (Gert Frobe) keeps visiting, wanting to know […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
Dr. Mabuse has a new base under a theater, a place that is putting on a play about the French Revolution but really, it’s just a place for dancer Liane Martin (Karin Dor, You Only Live Twice, Assignment Terror) to take a steamy bath. Something for daddy, as they say. Anyhow, Mabuse wants an invisibility machine and […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: An Unusual Suspect (2025)
Directed and written by Booker T. Mattison (Twisted Marriage Therapist), this is the tale of the impossibly named Viola January (Christie Leverette). Just out of law school and in a new job, she’s also working a case pro bono to free Will (Derrick J. Smith), a man she believes was wrongly accused of kidnapping a […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: The Return of Doctor Mabuse (1961)
The second of the 1960s CCC Films Dr. Mabuse film series, this movie follows up Fritz Lang’s The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Gert Fröbe, who plays Inspector Lohmann, was the selling point in the U.S., as he had become known as Goldfinger. The lawman is called away from his vacation to investigate a series […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
A CCC Filmkunst (West Germany), C.E.I. Incom (Italy) and Critérion Film (France) co-production — a UN of a movie — this is the last film ever directed by Fritz Lang, bringing back his villain of all villains, Dr. Mabuse. Lang had made the first two movies about this character, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and The […]
A NATURAL DOUBLE FEATURE ON THE DIA DF!
This Saturday, Bill and I are showing two movies at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels. Want to know what we’ve shown before? Check out this list. Have a request? Make it here. Want to see one of the drink recipes from a past show? We have you covered. Up first, Carnival of […]
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