Introduced in Norbert Jacques’ 1921 novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler), adapted as a silent film of the same name in 1922 by Fritz Lang,
It is a film about film, about the creation of artifice which pretends to be reality, a depiction scripted, staged and rehearsed before the camera is loaded in
It was in 1922 and 1933 that director Fritz Lang released the first two parts of what would eventually become a trilogy, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse
Out now on Blu-ray as part of Eureka’s Masters of Cinema range is Fritz Lang’s seminal film noir The Woman in The Window, starring Edward G Robinson, Joan