"Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler." "Based upon the novel in "Berliner Illustrierten Zeitung " by Norbert Jaques Screenplay Thea von Harbou" "The gowns of the female stars were designed by Vally Reinecke and made in the fashion studios of Flatow Schädler and Mossner" "First Part:" "The Great Gambler." "A picture of the times." "Act I" "He and his day." ""You have taken cocaine again, Spoerri!" "This is intolerable!" "If I see you like this again, I will drive you out like a dog!"" ""If you drive me out, I'll put a bullet through my head."" "Commercial Treaty" ""Full hand!"" ""Bravo, Georg!"" ""10 kilos of platinum, Salversan for 3 million marks, 160,000 bales of cotton going to France via Switzerland, advised for the first of March..."" ""Bank notes, Spoerri--!"" ""Again ten minutes late." "One is not late in my employ--"" ""Be careful, Pesch--!"" ""Calm down, Sir: you may continue your voyage in my car."" ""Arrange for Special Editions to burst upon the Stock Exchange at the crucial moment." "Half an hour later, the briefcase with the contract must be "discovered"." "Understand?"" ""I can't stand this pace any longer!" "It's modern cannibalism!"" ""Then why don't you get there on your own, old boy?"" ""Yes, yes my dear, except for the elimination commision, eh?"" ""Will you finally get home, you dirty pig!"" ""They are blind!"" ""As long as the European currencies maintain their downward trend, you will make exclusively dollar bills!"" "The Special Edition" "Special Edition AMBUSH ON COURIER Important Secret Agreement Stolen!" "The Dutch courier who was to have brought to Geneva the secret trade agreement between Holland and Switzerland, has been found assaulted and dazed in the express train." "The briefcase containing the trade agreement is missing." "The culprit has left no trace." "It is feared that if the agreement is made public, Switzerland will back out, which would leave the involved Dutch coffee and cocoa firms facing a virtual disaster." ""Sternberg is selling?" "!" "Then matters must be bad!"" "PLUNGE!" ""I am buying -- !"" "Special Edition AMBUSH ON COURIER Important Secret Agreement Stolen!" "The Dutch courier who was to have brought to Geneva the secret trade agreement between Holland and Switzerland, has been found assaulted and dazed in the express train." "The briefcase containing the trade agreement is missing." "The culprit has left no trace." "It is feared that if the agreement is made public, Switzerland will back out, which would leave the involved Dutch coffee and cocoa firms facing a virtual disaster." ""The briefcase containing the Dutch-Swiss Trade Agreement has been found by a trackman!" "The secret agreement..."" ""The agreement has been delivered uncompromised to the Swiss consulate!"" "FROM OUR WIRE SERVICES Swiss secret Agreement handed over intact to Consulate." "Absolutely no cause for panic." "Details to follow." "RISE!" ""I am selling!"" ""Trading is closed!"" "End of Act I" "Act II" "It is night..." "Scientific dissertations." "Series IV Today:" "Conference of Professor Dr.Mabuse, psychoanalyst." "The role of psychoanalysis in modern medicine." "Conference starts: 8 pm." "Welcome." ""If doctor and patients were to form relations such that interference from third parties were completely eliminated, I am of the firm conviction that 80% of all nervous diseases could be cured in the future through psychoanalysis..." ""I have the pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce to you the sensation of the Folies Bergère, Miss Cara Carozza!" ""The Hotel Excelsior reserved a box for me."" "Box 3, Seat 2 Edgar Hull, only son of the industrialist Paul Hull, 90 million, member of '17+4' club." ""Don't let me interfere, gentlemen." "I'm going home." "My headache is killing me."" ""Good evening, Mr. Hull!"" ""Don't you know me--?" "!"" ""Yes--!" "You do know me, Mr. Hull--!"" ""You wanted to go to the club, Mr. Hull--?" "May I join you--?"" "The club "17+4" " ""Balling..."" "Hotel Excelsior, Room 111, is reserved for you." "You will find further orders there." ""Hull is losing like crazy-- --"" ""A Mr. Balling is holding the bank."" ""--the gentleman is playing with the cards provided by the club itself-- --"" ""I would advise you, Mr. Hull, to stop playing for today."" ""Consider my embarassment." "Mr. Hull is a guest of your club;" "let me hold the bank for a few more rounds!"" ""Gentlemen, it is five o'clock." "I think it is time to stop."" "va banque!" ""I have lost again -- --"" ""Until tomorrow afternoon, you will have to content yourself with 20,000 marks and a promissory note for 150,000 marks." "May I ask for your address?"" "Hugo Balling Excelsior Hotel" ""I have played -- and lost -- but to whom?"" ""To your friend!"" ""Friend?" " " " I've never seen the man before!" "Who actually brought him to the Club-- --?"" ""I think you've been drinking too much, Hull." "First you play va banque despite your bad luck, and then you claim not to know the man whom you yourself brought here -- !"" ""You play va banque -- hold the highest cards in your hands -- and throw them away?" "!"" ""What's going on with me-- --?" "!"" "Hugo Balling Excelsior Hotel 112" "End of Act II" "Act III" "Hugo Balling Excelsior Hotel 112" ""Excuse me " " I must have mistaken the door." "I'm looking for room 112 --"" ""Then Mr. Balling must have given me the wrong room number."" ""My name is Balling " " Hugo Balling."" ""Did you write that?"" "Hugo Balling Excelsior Hotel 112" ""Then I don't owe you 150,000 marks from gambling."" "The room next door." "When you cannot settle for the man you want--you settle for a woman!" "November 9 Thursday" "November 27 Monday" "State Attorney von Wenk" ""I'll come straight to the point, Mr. Hull:" "I have come to tell you that as of today, you are under the direct protection of the police!"" ""For about six weeks, the authorities have been receiving complaints about some rapacious gamblers." "In no case could any card-sharping be proved." "But their luck in the game is so extraordinary that something fishy must be going on."" ""It is always someone different -- one time a young gentleman, at another a respectable petit bourgeois, today a blonde American, tomorrow a black- haired Russian."" "Hugo Balling Excelsior Hotel 112" ""Perhaps he is one of them."" ""Your experience with that mysterious Mr. Balling, which Karsten told me about, prompted me to request your assistance."" ""We do not know why "Mr Balling" chose not to claim his 150,000 Marks." "Perhaps as a precautionary measure..." "Perhaps on a whim."" ""Am I really nothing more to you than an instrument?"" ""You should have been with Hull for ten minutes!"" """ " He will present the promissory note when you least expect it -- then, you shall put me on his track!" "One more thing, Mr. Hull." "Please treat my visit as completely personal and confidential."" ""Another thing, Mr. Hull: please keep my visit confidential and treat it as a purely private matter--"" "State Attorney von Wenk" ""She's here now -- !"" "State Attorney von Wenk" ""What dangerous acquaintances have you been making lately?"" "State Attorney von Wenk" ""He would like me to introduce him to a few gambling clubs."" ""Gardi, do nothing foolish!" "Don't get us into the soup with that State Attorney of yours!"" "Schramm's Barbecue -- " "Schramm's "Palais" -- " "Schramm's "Inner Circle" -- " "Emil Schramm, the proprietor -- -- 1912 " "1913-1918 " "1919 " "1922..." "(An honest trade has a gold lining)" ""I will gladly introduce you, but you will have to forgo her name -- -- none of us know it." "In gambling circles, she is called "Lady Passive" as she herself never gambles."" ""Madam, allow me to introduce you to Mr. von Wenk -- a fervent admirer of your beauty."" ""Gentlemen, who will take over the bank?"" ""How does a woman like you get into such company -- among pushers, gamblers, and prostitutes?"" ""I have become sluggish, Mr. von Wenk!" "To rise to life, I require strong sensations."" ""But tell me, why don't you gamble?"" ""I prefer to observe the passions of others triggered by gambling, without getting too close to the gamblers themselves."" ""You will accept it?" "Cost $50,000 at Tiffany in New York!" "Against the bank--!"" ""Will you accept -- ?" ""Four --"" "Do you want character studies?" "Then look at that Russian woman -- when she is losing, she is fabulous."" ""I had only three " " I wanted to buy -- but I could not!" "He looked at me with his evil eyes -- like a devil!"" ""Yes -- he had evil eyes -- like a beast of prey -- "" ""When gambling, nobody looks like a saint!"" ""If you are the gentleman I take you for, please help me leave the room unnoticed!"" ""What does that mean!" "?"" ""Is a Mr. Hull here?"" "Edgar Hull I confirm that I owe Mr. Balling 150,000 marks - one hundred and fifty thousand." "Payment due by November 21st at 4 o'clock in the afternoon." "E. Hull" "You are warned." "It is entirely my own affair that I did not collect the 150,000 marks." "A game is a game." "A matter between you and myself and not the business of any State Attorney!" "Act IV" "The following night" ""I was sitting right beside him-- and I didn't recognize him!"" ""Do you not understand?" "The young blonde man at Schramms--?" "He was your "Mr. Balling", your distinguished gentleman!"" ""Everything that happens -- it's centered around you." "Don't make a move without informing me--"" ""Another thing, Mr. Hull:" "I don't trust Miss Cara Carozza--"" ""Dear Hull: that pretty woman is concealing some interesting secrets!"" "Based upon the novel in "Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung" by Norbert Jacques" "The Gowns of the Female Stars were designed by Vally Reinecke and made in the fashion studios of Flatow-Schäcler and Mossner." "Second Part:" "Inferno A play about people of our time." "Prelude" "Dr. Mabuse, that great gambler with people and destinies, has succeeded in assassinating young Hull, through a plot involving dancer Cara Carozza, despite State Attorney von Wenk's best efforts to prevent it." "Carozza has been arrested." "Through the strength of his will alone, Mabuse forced Count Told to cheat at cards." "Mabuse has kidnapped Countess Told, whom he loves." "Insomniac nights..." "Dear Mr. von Wenk, I agreed under false pretenses to sound out Miss Carozza in prison." "I thought that I would find the paid tout of a notorious criminal -- only to find a woman full of love, before whose simple and unconditional feelings I am not suitable to be your ally." "Please forgive me if for that reason I have to disappoint you." "Yours, Dusy Told, Countess" "The sleeping woman..." "I cannot be your ally." "Please excuse me for deceiving you." "Yours, Dusy Told, Countess" ""Only now shall the world learn who I am - " " I!" "Mabuse!" "A giant -- a titan who jumbles up laws and gods like withered leaves!"" ""Count Told, would you not like to confide what happened to you?"" ""I cheated at cards!"" ""I cheated--!" "Yes--!" "But I did not want to!" "It just came over me!" "Something stronger than I forced me to do it!"" ""I who usually never touch a card " " I had such a streak of luck!" "I had only to open my cards and I won!"" ""Were all your guests old acquaintances?"" ""All -- except one, whom my wife had invited --the psychoanalyst Dr. Mabuse." "But he did not join in the game."" ""You cheat!" "'" ""My wife has left me -- probably she has gone to her mother -- because she does not want to share her life with a card-cheat --"" ""Don't you trust any doctor at all?" "Some experienced psychiatrist in whom you could confide?"" ""Dr. Mabuse...?" "If I'd turn to Dr. Mabuse?"" ""Useless, Countess." "This door does not open except when I want it!"" ""Count Told is on the phone!"" ""Doctor, you were present when I had that accident at the card table." "I need your medical help." "When may I see you?"" ""I treat patients only in their homes!" "Expect me tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock!"" "End of Act I" "Act II" ""Get up!" "You're being transfered to the women's prison!"" "The eleventh hour " ""Your case interests me " " I will treat you." "But only under certain conditions!"" ""For as long as you are under my treatment, you will not leave the house, not receive anybody, not speak to anybody." "You must not see anyone who reminds you of your former life!"" ""As from today I am not available to anyone neither personally nor by telephone." "Tell everybody asking for me or the Countess that we have gone away for an indefinite time!"" ""Please connect me to Count Told." "The Countess is not staying with her mother!"" ""I am sorry, but sir and madam are away!"" ""I am sorry, Mr. State Attorney, but sir and madam left this morning!"" ""My brother has sent a colleague with the message that La Carozza has been taken to the women's prison." "She is in Cell 194, main building, second floor."" "The blind -- " ""If by some damned coincidence they got on my track, I'll get away through this tunnel. - And I would like to see anybody open this trap door without a key!"" ""From underneath a gentle push will lift the door!"" ""Put on something decent and report to me!" "You are to start a new job in my house!"" "Captivity..." ""Be careful!" "My sudden disappearance will not go unnoticed." "My husband, my friends will look for me--"" ""Your friends?" "!" "Do you perhaps mean State Attorney von Wenk?"" ""Unless the State Attorney really hurries up, he won't have much more time to free you!"" ""And my husband-?"" ""Your husband is under my medical treatment!"" ""You'd better not speak of your husband!" "Do not dare even to think of him!" "You will be pronouncing his death sentence if you mention his name in my presence!"" ""Good God, hurry up!" "I am supposed to be in the women's prison by now!"" ""Why are you so obstinate, Miss Carozza?" "If you'd assist us in clearing up Hull's murder, I might be able to arrange privileges for you!"" ""You are sacrificing yourself for a scoundrel who has simply abandoned you -- and in vain -- for we are already on his tail!"" ""He is stronger than all of you!" "He destroys anybody he wants too!" "You too he will destroy if you cross him!"" ""I am supposed to check the electrical wiring in here..."" ""The man for whose sake you are here has thrown you away like a squeezed fruit." "He knows very well that it might cost you your head - and he does not lift a finger to help you--"" "" -- and who can guarantee that no other woman has long since replaced you in his heart?"" ""Give me two days time...!"" ""Imbecile!"" ""I need a ladder!"" ""When will Wenk be back?"" ""At five--"" ""Wenk has managed to wear down La Carozza." "We can't rely on her keeping quiet--"" ""Then we must liquidate!"" ""That will cost you your life, my boy!" "On whose instructions did you act?"" ""From him--?" "!"" ""But -- why?" "I have done nothing to him!"" ""I will try an experiment " " I will confront him with La Carozza." "Perhaps one of them will give themselves away --"" ""You--?"" "End of Act II" "Act III" "The Confrontation" ""He has killed her --!"" ""Who-?" "!"" ""Who-?" "!" "the name -- the name --!"" ""No, no no " " I won't say a word - or the same thing will happen to me!"" ""Take this man to police headquarters under double guard and with every conceivable precaution!" "Avoid busy streets!" "Report immediately!"" ""And if I have to cross-examine you for 48 hours, I will get the name out of you!" "You may count on that!"" ""Johannes Gutter has been arrested!" "They're taking him to police headquarters!"" ""All his life Johannes Gutter has devoted himself to your just cause!" "That's why he has been taken from our midst now!" "Are we going to put up with that?" "!"" ""We shall not leave him in the lurch!" "We'll get him out!"" ""They are not taking the usual route!" "They are going through Mueller Street!"" ""Johannes Gutter!" "Johannes Gutter!"" ""Release Johannes Gutter!"" ""Be sensible, folks!" "The prisoner we're transporting is not Johannes Gutter at all!"" ""See for yourselves that the prisoner is not Gutter." "But then be sensible and clear the path!"" ""Where have the people with the prisoner got to?" "After the incident with La Carozza, I won't rest until I know that fellow to be in your special care!"" ""Carozza was thoroughly searched when she was brought in." "How did she suddently get the poison?" "Even in the women's prison, the Great Unknown must have his accomplices!"" ""In Mueller Street we suddenly could not get any further!" "God knows who incited those people--!"" ""Wake the Countess and tell her that I wish to speak to her."" ""I've never seen that person before." "None of us knew him!" "But since he shot his mouth off -- --"" ""You wished to speak to me?" "!"" ""The game between us must end -- one way -- or the other!" "I am no longer the man I used to be." "I am making mistakes -- losing my nerve--"" ""I intend to leave this town -- this country, Countess, and I ask you to accompany me!"" ""I want you to become mine!" "And I will destroy without mercy any obstacle that stands between us!"" ""For the last time, Countess, will you follow me of your free will -- or as a prisoner?"" ""Never, do you hear?" "Never!" "I want to return to my husband!"" ""You have now pronounced his death sentence--"" "Nocturnal phantoms " "The day " ""Dr. Mabuse!"" ""Your condition has deteriorated -- you are sicker than ever!"" ""Do you know that your wife wants to commit you to an insane asylum?"" "State Attorney von Wenk" ""Disguised as a gaming-crazy pusher in secret gambling clubs, I will try and lure the "Great Unknown" to my track -- and you shall help!"" ""Please go at once to La Carrozza and get me from her a list of the secret gambling clubs, which I then will visit every evening." "Dear Mr. von Wenk:" "Since I believe that I owe you an explanation and do not wish you to regard me as a woman seeking trivial adventures in gaming clubs, I would ask you to take tea with me at five." "Yours obediently, Countesse Told" ""Please don't hold me responsible for what you see here." "These things are my husband's hobby."" ""Thank you--"" ""You have saved me from an embarassing dispute and my husband from the bitter discovery that his wife seeks relief from the dead atmosphere of his house in night-spots and gambling-dens."" ""I need life, the strong breath of the unusual-- sensations -- adventures --but I am afraid they are extinct!"" ""You are incorrect, Countess." "Adventures still exist -- and I am right in the middle of one of the most interesting!" "Would you like to take part in it?"" ""The enemy I pursue " " I do not know him -- I only know he is there."" ""I want to warn you--"" ""For the first time in my life I am frightened for you." "Be wary of Wenk!"" ""Give me convincing proof your "Great Unknown" is real and I will become your ally in the fight against him!"" ""You play with money -- with people -- with fates -- it all means nothing to you -- !"" "Break a leg!" "Karsten" "The third evening" "Salon, Andreastr., 67 password bluefox Tavern, Schifferdamm, 110 " anchor Café, Wienerstr., 212 " marble Andalusia Palace, Jochen Ave., 11 " pineapple Pariser Platz, 10 " Venus" ""Pineapple--"" ""Cocaine or cards?"" ""Cards."" ""But these are Chinese spectacles..."" ""Yes, from TSI-NAN-FU!"" ""You take--!" "You take--!" "You take--!"" ""You take--!"" ""No!"" ""YOU TAKE!"" ""No!"" ""Wasn't that the gentleman from 340--?"" ""No, sir!" "It was the Dutch professor from 321."" ""I would like to speak with the manager!"" ""Who is occupying 321?"" ""Professor van den Gruich."" ""He's staying alone?"" ""Then it's possible that--"" ""Please alert your house detective--"" ""He's flown--"" ""Who were the last people to leave the hotel?"" ""Just the office manager!"" ""I" " I have all the while been in the office!"" ""I think you can safely rent room 321 out without any worries."" "End of Act IV" "Act V" "Waking up" ""Whisky!"" ""I told Hawasch and Spoerri to be here for 6 " " Why haven't they arrived yet?"" ""That goes back to the State Attorney." "I don't rob corpses."" "State Attorney Norbert von Wenk is authorized at any time to make arrests, to enlist the aid of the police and any government officials or local authorities." "His instructions are to be followed absolutely." "Wogenbruty" ""Carozza is to come--!"" ""Well, well." "I congratulate you two--"" "Salon, Andreastr., 67 password bluefox Tavern, Schifferdamm, 110 " anchor Café, Wienerstr., 212 " marble Andalusia Palace, Jochen Ave., 11 " pineapple Pariser Platz, 10 " Venus" ""You bloodhound, you Goddamn bloodhound!"" ""You dare open your mouth, you cur?" "!"" ""What am I paying you for if at the first opportunity you fail like a little girl and let the State Attorney get away?" "!"" ""Hull must disappear!" "And above all -- Wenk!"" ""Georg will do it -- both of you will help him." "La Carozza will engineer it."" ""Mr. public prosecutor, a chaffeur dropped this package off half an hour ago."" ""I've just dropped in, Gardi, to tell you of a marvelous new club that's being opened tonight." "We absolutely have to go there!"" "Tonight, opening of the Petit Casino, Haydn Street 11, code word Mirabeau." "Be there with Hull punctually at 11:00, make absolutely sure that Wenk does not come too!" "B." "Tonight, opening of the Petit Casino, Haydn Street 11, code word Mirabeau." "Be there with Hull punctually at 11:00, make absolutely sure that Wenk does not come too!" "B." "Thursday, Police headquarters lecture 8 p.m. 11 Haydn Street" ""In any case go there with La Carozza, but behave as innocuously as possible so that she doesn't become suspicious." "There is no danger " " I will be there first!"" ""The Countess very much regrets that she is not able to receive the State Attorney but the ladies and gentlemen have been invited to a spiritual seance at Councillor Wendel's tonight--"" "11 Haydn Street" ""You seem to possess the 'open sesame' to all secret doors, Mr. State Attorney!"" ""Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor and the great pleasure to delcare the Petit Casino open in your esteemed presence!"" ""The Petit Casino has set itself to the task to satisfy your most discriminating demands in every respect." "Among the most modern settings and decorations you shall be transported back to that Golden Age whose only motto was: 'Everything that pleases is allowed.'!"" "The other world" ""Lady Countess, I assure you that the wait will be worth it." "An extraordinary person is due to arrive." "One of our most famous psychoanalysts." "He has a special interest in the occult."" ""Ladies and gentlemen, I have thus explained to you the inestimable merits of the Petit Casino -- but what if the police were ever to try and interfere in our affairs and disturb us at our game?" "Well, then--"" ""She is no good!" "She has no talent!"" "Now, ladies and gentlemen, you are informed about everything -- play may commence."" ""An alien element is among us!"" ""I am afraid, ladies and gentlemen, the troublemaker is me!"" ""Do not be troubled, ladies and gentlmen, I will be happy to keep the Countess company!"" ""Why shouldn't the table to move?" " the smarter one gives in!"" ""I fear that there is nothing in the world to interest me for long " " Everything that can be seen from a car, from an opera box, or from a window is partly disgusting, partly uninteresting, always boring!"" ""You are right, Countess -- nothing in the world is interesting for long -- except for one thing--"" ""Playing with people and their destines!"" ""See to it that La Carozza does not notice my leaving " " I am going to telephone the police and have the party raided." "On no account leave Hull alone!"" ""I have asked Dr. Mabuse to give us the pleasure of his company Thursday night..."" ""Where is Wenk?"" ""Listen, the whole thing is bad news." "If that State Attorney sends the police chasing after us, we will be in the soup!"" ""The cars are parked in the side street--"" ""The woman!" "Arrest the woman--!"" "End of Act V" "Act VI" ""Shouldn't we do something to rescue La Carozza?"" ""What do I care about La Carozza now?" "Let her go to hell!"" "You are playing with fire, Mr. Attorney, by keeping me locked up in here!"" "I give you one more week to liquidate Wenk, so you can plan everything reliably -- but not a minute longer " " I want to be rid of him!"" ""Would it be very impolite if I -- cancelled that Dr. Mabuse's invitation...?"" ""I cannot really explain it!" "I don't know why I invited him nor why I now want to withdraw the invitation " " I --"" ""State Attorney von Wenk wishes to know if the Countess receives!"" ""I want to have an exact plan of the Told Palace in my hands within the hour."" "The other day, you promised me your help -- today I come to ask for it."" ""The woman... that woman--!"" "You would have to volunteer to join that Carozza woman in prison, as if you too had been raided in a gaming club." "I am convinced you would succeed where we men have failed to get La Carozza to talk!"" ""Think: this is about getting a lead on one of the most dangerous criminals of all times." "You would be doing your duty for society!"" ""What!" "He is in the round room " " Where Carozza used to stay - ?" "!"" ""This room shall be put in order immediately, Spoerri!"" ""All right, tonight at police headquarters!"" "At dusk..." "Miss Carozza - what a coincidence!" "Just think, they arrested me!" "At Schramm's!" "Then they dragged me to this place." "I am outraged -- beside myself -- !"" ""What am I here for - ?" "Distinguished!" " Are you perhaps here voluntarily - !" "?" "!"" ""I have heard that they connect you with that terrible murder story!" "Ridiculous-!" "How do they get such an absurd notion!" "Were you even in the vicinity when the murder took place...?" "!"" ""Have you no shame - ?"" ""He's at his wits' end, this State Attorney!" "And now he's expecting help from me - !" "Me, who is more miserable and lost than a stray dog - !"" "But after all, he did not mean to leave you - -- he is dead --"" ""Who is dead -- ?" "!"" ""Hull..."" ""Who could kill him?" "He can't even destroy himself."" ""Who are you speaking of?"" ""Who he is -- nobody knows!" "He is there!" "He lives!" "He towers over the city!" "He is damnation and eternal bliss!" "He is the greatest man alive!" "And he has loved me!"" ""How can this be?"" ""And now tell me, what could force me to betray such a unique man to you miserable creatures -- !"" ""Forgive me, Miss Carozza." "I did not know that you love him --"" "Dear Mr. von Wenk, I agreed under false pretenses to sound out Miss Carozza in prison." "I thought that I would find the paid tout of a notorious criminal -- only to find a woman full of love, before whose simple and unconditional feelings I am not suitable to be your ally." "Please forgive me if for that reason I have to disappoint you." "Yours, Dusy Todd, Countess" "The Great Game" ""What is your opinion on expressionism, Doctor?"" "Expressionism is mere pastime -- but why not?" "Everything today is pastime --!"" ""Since everything is a pastime, Doctor, I hope you will not hold it against me if we now go over to play poker..."" ""Your husband has luck in the game!"" ""Strange..." "My husband almost never plays...!"" ""I have encountered something which until recently I did not believe existed -- something of greater value and more deeply stirring than even the strongest sensation --!"" ""Love--"" ""There is no love -- there is only desire!" "There is no happiness - there is only the will for power!"" ""Told seems to have almost incredible luck -- !"" ""Shall I give you some evidence of the power of will?"" ""You Cheat!"" ""Mine...!"" "End of Part One" ""Your wife has left you -- forever!" "Your life is ruined -- you cannot go on living -- " " NOT GO ON LIVING--!"" ""NOT GO ON LIVING!"" ""The Count must be left absolutely alone - any disturbance could be fatal!"" ""NOT GO ON LIVING!"" ""With the razor -- --!"" "End of Act III" "Act IV" ""Where is the Countess?"" ""I have not seen the Countess since that terrible night at the card game!"" ""Then why did you tell me on the telephone that the Master and Mistress had gone away?"" ""I was ordered to do so by the Count."" ""In my humble opinion, Sir, the master grew really bad only after Dr. Mabuse treated him."" ""Since we are going abroad tomorrow, Countess, here are the people who will have the honor to be at your service!"" ""I wish to return to my husband!"" ""Your husband is dead--!"" ""If there is any human feeling in you -- let me go to my husband!"" ""I will personally visit Dr. Mabuse." "Do you have an address?"" "Dr. Mabuse Psychoanalysis" ""I am very sorry, the Doctor is out!"" ""Nothing, Sir." ""With your permission:" "Dr. Mabuse!"" "What a strange coincidence, Doctor!" "I have just come from your house." "I wanted to inform you of the suicide of your patient, Count Told!"" ""And I, State Attorney von Wenk, came to ask your help in preventing just such a tragedy!"" ""The case of Count Told is so unusual from beginning to end that I have become convinced that both as card-cheater and as suicide, the Count acted under the compulsion of some overpowering, but to him, hostile mind!"" ""Are you familiar with Weltmann's experiments?"" "An Evening of Experiments Sandor Weltmann Experiments in Mass Suggestion, Sleepless Hypnosis, Trance, Natural Magnetism, The Secrets of the Indian Fakirs." "The Secrets of the Psyche." "The Subconscious in Man and Animal." "In the Main Auditorium of Philharmonic Hall" ""You would there see with your own eyes, Weltmann, due to his tremendous suggestive powers, is able to compel people to act in a way diametrically opposite to their nature --preferably, people who try to resist his influence--"" ""And you believe Count Told fell victim to such an overpowering influence of some unknown enemy?"" ""You have roused my curiosity, Doctor " " I will follow your suggestion!"" ""Forgive me just one more question, Doctor:" "do you happen to know the whereabouts of Countess Told?"" ""How come you let that gentleman into my office without informing me?" "Are not even you to be relied on any more?" "!"" ""Yes -- it's true -- how did we allow it?"" ""As soon as you see Wenk approaching, start the engine and let him pass." "Then you come back here as quickly as possible!"" ""This time his whole bodyguard won't save the State Attorney!"" ""I don't know if Sandor Weltmann himself is the puppeteer." "In any case, we are dealing with an opponent where the improbable is the most likely of all things expected." "That means you'll just have to act on your own initiative--"" "End of Act IV" "Act V" "An Evening of Experiments Sandor Weltmann Experiments in Mass Suggestion, Sleepless Hypnosis, Trance, Natural Magnetism, The Secrets of the Indian Fakirs." "The Secrets of the Psyche." "The Subconscious in Man and Animal." "In the Main Auditorium of Philharmonic Hall" ""Ladies and Gentlemen, I would next like to demonstrate to you a case of typical mass suggestion such as is the power base of the Hindu Fakirs."" ""Would somebody please call out a couple of two-digit numbers!"" ""64!"" ""12!"" "Alright; 64 and 12." "If the ladies and gentlemen occupying the seats with those numbers are agreeable to my conducting some experiments with them, would they please rise."" ""Seat number 12 is empty!"" ""Perhaps the gentleman at number 11 would be so kind--"" ""In the right inside pocket of your jacket you have two 1000" " Mark notes issued in 1918, series D number 65045 and series E number 5567, a weapon license, one identity card; in your left inside pocket you carry a Browning -- is that correct?"" ""Would you please read out what it says on the note?"" ""The lady from number 64 shall remove the Browning from the inside pocket of the Gentleman at number 11 and give it to the Gentleman at number 5!"" ""Would the Gentleman at number 11 be so kind as to be available for one more experiment?"" ""The I would ask you, as well as a few other ladies and gentleman, to come up and join me on the stage!"" ""A new experiment!" "This Gentleman will be so kind and carry out what I have written down in this sealed envelope"" ""Tsi-Nan-Fu!"" ""Tsi-Nan-Fu!"" ""Doctor..." "Doctor Ma..."" ""Do what I have written down!"" "You conduct the lady to her seat, leave the auditorium, get into the car number 3825 waiting outside the door, and drive at full speed over the mountain road into the quarry." "Melior!" "Melior" ""The note says:" "You lead the lady to her seat, leave the auditoriu, go home and go to bed!"" ""This thing gives me an eerie feeling!" "We've got to go after him!"" ""Boss, the "Great Unknown" we are looking for " " Dr. Mabuse, doctor, gambler, criminal--!"" ""To the closest police station!" "As fast as possible!"" "Finale" ""I'll look after the car, you wake Fine and the Countess!" "Let the Doctor sleep as long as possible." "After last night's business, he was completely exhausted."" ""We can't get out, the police have surrounded the house!"" ""Then -- we'll give them a fight!"" "End of Act V" "Act VI" ""They are resisting more stubbornly than we anticipated." "The men should keep under cover until I give further instructions!"" "A telephone conversation..." ""This is State Attorney von Wenk speaking!"" "Dr. Mabuse, I request you not to resist the forces of justice."" ""I don't know anything about your 'justice'." "If you want me -- get me!"" ""We are determined to proceed against you with the fiercest means!" "Give up your pointless resistance!"" ""I allow myself to draw your attention to the fact that Countess Told is also in the house!"" ""We must get the army to help us!"" ""Mabuse is keeping Countess Told prisoner!" "The attack on the house has to succeed the first time or the woman's life will be in danger!"" ""Doctor!" "The army is coming--!"" ""Cocaine snorts, coward!"" ""Let the woman go, Doctor!" "Save yourself!"" ""Where is Mabuse?" "!"" ""Shut up, Spoerri!" "Remember Pesch!"" ""--Home--!"" ""Caught--!"" "Will he keep his mouth shut, this coward?" "!" ""These objects were found on the dead in Mabuse's house, Sir!"" ""And Hawasch is dead -- and Fine --"" ""..." "It is the key -- to Hawasch's counterfeiting plant -- he may have taken refuge there --!"" ""Take over the bank, Dr. Mabuse..."" ""CHEAT!"" "The man who was once Mabuse" "The End"