Norbert Jacques' Doctor Mabuse is like Fu Manchu, Svengali, Moriarty, all rolled up together, a diabolical archvillain and master of disguise with mind-control and body transference powers and a really intense stare to boot, and so of course any movie that features him is going to be a hoot, even if it is a four-and-a-half hour black-and-white silent movie from 1922, as this Fritz Lang masterpiece is.
★★★★★
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