Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray Jess Franco's
The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse (1972), starring Fred Williams, Jack Taylor, Ewa Strömberg, Moisés Augusto Rocha, Eva Garden, and Jess Franco. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on August 19.
Description: A criminal mastermind (Jack Taylor, Female Vampire) deploys poison gas and a beautiful whip-wielding assassin (Beni Cardoso) in a plot to steal government secrets in The Vengeance of Dr Mabuse (Dr. M schlägt zu). But his elaborate schemes risk unraveling when a small-town inspector (Fred Williams) stumbles into the scene.
An unauthorized entry in the Dr. Mabuse cycle, the film makes no reference to Norbert Jacques's clairvoyant criminal (the M-word is carefully avoided). Instead, director Jess Franco used the project as a chance to revisit his own sci-fi thrillers (The Awful Dr. Orlof, The Diabolical Dr. Z). Fold in a disfigured henchman (Rocha), a striptease dancer (Ewa Strömberg, Vampyros Lesbos), and wrap it all in a feverish jazz score, and the result is a spicy cinematic melange that could only have been concocted in the demented mind of Jess Franco.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW Audio Commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
- In German, with English subtitles