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La venganza del doctor Mabuse [1972]

Country of Origin: Spain / West Germany
Year of Production: 1972
Running Times: 88 mins     100 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Copercines, Cooperativa Cinematográfica / Fénix Cooperativa Cinematográfica / Tele-Cine Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Executive Producer: Arturo Marcos
Producers: Ignacio Gutierrez, Artur Brauner
Production Manager: Karl Heinz Mannchecn

SCRIPT
Script: Jesus Franco, Art Bern (real name: Artur Brauner)
Novel: David Khunne (real name: Jesus Franco)

DIRECTION
Director: Frank Manero (real name: Jesus Franco)
Assistant Directors: Ricardo Franco, Emilio Martinez Lazaro, Rudolf Hertzog

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Manuel Merino
Assistant Director of Photography: Javier Perez Zofio

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Renate Engelmann, Jesús M. Pisón?  Jesus Marcofison?

MUSIC
Music: Daniel J. White
West German Version Music: Rolf Kuhn, David Khunne (real name: Jesus Franco)

SOUND
Sound: Max Galinsky

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Angeles Otal, Ruth Keller

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director / Set Dresser: Karl Meyerberg
Set Decorator: Hans Jürgen Kiebach

LOCATIONS
Locations: Alicante, Spain; Murcia, Spain; Barcelona, Spain

CAST
Fred Williams [Inspector Thomas]
Jack Taylor [Farkas / Mabuse]
Ewa Strömberg [Jenny]
Roberto Camardiel [Carlos]
Siegfried Lowitz [Dr Orloff]
Moisés Augusto Rocha [Andros]
Gustavo Re [Melou]
Ava Garden (real name: Eva Garden) [Wanda Orloff]
Angel Melendez [Parkinson]
Friedrich Joloff [Hermann]
Beni Cardosi [Leslie]
Wolfgang Kieling [angler]
Jesus Franco [Crosby]
Andrés Monales [John Paganini]
Guillermo Méndez
Linda Hastreiter

SUMMARY

Professor Farkas is developing a mind-control ray from his secret laboratory hidden in a lighthouse. To complete his work, he and his accomplice Herrmann steal some rare moon minerals from the Institute of Research. Farkas turns out to be the notorious Doctor Mabuse and is being pursued by Inspector Thomas who thinks he has a lead when Jenny witnesses the murder of her neighbour by Mabuse's mutant sidekick, Andros.

AVAILABILITY

Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Rosa Films S.A.

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Spain
Rating: 18

TIMELINE

1972
December

26: West Germany – theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

El Doctor Mabuse - Spanish working title
Der Doktor Mabuse
- West German working title
Dr M schlägt zu
- West German title
Der Mann der Sich Mabuse Nannte - West German title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Gritos en la noche [1961]

REFERENCES

BOOKS

Obsession - The Films of Jesus Franco p.84
credits, review [by Lucas Balbo]

KEYWORDS

human experiments, kidnappings, laboratories, lighthouses, metals, mind control, the moon, nightclubs, rays, scientists

 


Last Updated: 6 March, 2007

 


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