邪恶的马布斯博士的灵魂接管了一位著名教授的身体。然后，马布斯教授/博士开始了一场新的犯罪浪潮，恐吓这座城市。

A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.

Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills for him while the entire police force desperately tries to catch him.

在上世纪初的德国，一个精通心理学的犯罪天才马布斯博士，利用各种伎俩，包括催眠，易容，赌博等，把他的受害人完全操纵于股掌之中。他自称能够医治战后人们的精神创伤；他欺骗了舞蹈演员卡罗扎，又从百万富翁的儿子胡尔手中靠赌博赢得了五万马克。警方有人开始调查……

Commissioner Lohmann is already planning his holidays. An unexpected phone call calls him back to work. A member of Interpol was murdered. The head of an organisation wants to come into contact with the gangster organisation of chicago. But who is this? Mysterious murders happen and all trails lead to a penitentiary. But there is Joe Como, FBI agent, who is helping commissioner Lohmann. But soon Lohmann doubts Comos' identity. When Lohmann sees the name of Dr. Mabuse mentioned in a book found by a victim he believes that Dr. Mabuse is the mind behind the crimes...

本片有浓厚的表现主义特色，讲地下犯罪集团头目马布斯被抓到疯人院，但在那里依然口出狂言，发号施令，直到他死后，这些指令在外面仍有人执行，让警察百思不得其解。

主演：彼得·范·埃克、O.E. 哈塞、伊冯·弗奴克丝、里卡·迪亚利纳、沃尔夫冈·普雷斯、沃尔特·里拉、恩斯特·施罗德、罗伯特·比提、瓦莱里·因基吉诺夫、迪特尔·埃普勒、克劳迪奥·戈拉、加斯塔沃·罗乔、马西莫·彼得罗邦、查尔斯·福西特、里奥·吉恩、谷洋子、雷娜特·丹茨

一部曾被德国纳粹禁映的表现主义电影代表作！ 本片是1922年《马布斯博士》上下集后的续集，有着浓厚的表现主义色彩。影片对纳粹和希特勒的影射非常明显，因此刚上映便遭禁。 本片讲述地下犯罪集团头目马布斯被抓到疯人院，但在那里依然口出狂言，发号施令，直到他死后，这些指令在外面仍有人执行，让警察百思不得其解……

Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?