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Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (released in the U.S. in 1943 as "The Last Will of Doctor Mabuse", and "The Testament of Doctor Mabuse"), the classic 1933 Fritz Lang German crime mad criminal genius detective thriller (a very complicated story of a criminal mastermind who runs a huge operation from his room in a mental hospital, and the detective trying to break up his crime syndicate; there are some who think that Lang intended his central character to be a parody of Hitler, and obviously, Hitler took offense at this parallel, because he had the movie banned!; the movie is a sequel of sorts to Lang's 5 hour silent movie "Dr. Mabuse", which is sometimes shown in two parts; some people consider this movie to be Lang's very best movie, amazing since he also did "Metropolis" and "M"!) starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge (in the title role as Dr. Mabuse), Oscar Beregi Sr., Thomy Bourdelle, Raymond Cordy, Gustav Diessl, Ginette Gaubert, Wera Liessem, Theodor Loos, Maurice Maillot, Karl Meixner, Daniel Mendaille, Camilla Spira, and Monique Rolland. This movie is unusual in that Fritz Lang shot two versions of the movie at the same time! In addition to the regular German language version, Lang made a second French language version. In that movie, Rudolf Klein-Rogge played Dr Mabuse as well as in the German version, but the rest of the cast was entirely different. This was done by many of the major studios in the very early 1930s, where they would have a second cast film a second version of the movie on the same sets (which saved a lot of money), but in all the other cases we know of, a second director was called in to shoot the second version. In this case, Lang directed both versions (although Rene Sti was the co-director of the French version). Note that, shortly before it was to be released, this film was banned in Germany by Joseph Goebbels (Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda) because it "showed that an extremely dedicated group of people are perfectly capable of overthrowing any state with violence". It finally had a German (West) release in 1951.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is one of 52 "faux" lobby card sets we were consigned, which we are auctioning in 52 separate auctions! WHAT ARE THESE? Starting in 2021 a long time collector who (like so many of us) chose to stay home that year a lot due to Covid, and he made many faux lobby sets like this to help pass the time! He was inspired by the "Fantasy #9" lobby cards created several decades ago, each of which is from a classic horror/sci-fi movie, showing a great scene that wasn't in the original set!

He created those sets using top images from each film! He did not make them through a computer program, but instead pasted together actual prints to create mock-ups. On most of these he made 8 card sets, but on some of them he created sets with odd quantities (as low as 4, and as high as 26 cards!). He then printed just THREE of each set, and he promised not to reprint them (and he has not). He numbered the first card in each set, and what we offered was the "1 of 3" of each set, which meant there are only two other sets of each, and there will never be more of those.

SINCE 2021, OUR CONSIGNOR HAS MADE MORE SETS THREE TIMES, AND IN EACH CASE WE AUCTIONED THE "1/3" OF EACH SET. BUT NOW, OUR CONSIGNOR HAS SENT US 52 OF THE PAST SETS, BUT THESE ARE "2/3" (and we are auctioning them in 52 separate auctions). So in every case, we previously auctioned the 1/3 of each of these sets, and now we are auctioning the 2/3, so since our consignor told us that he is keeping the 3/3 of each set, then that means this is everyone's last chance to purchase one of these sets (unless he later decides to auction the set he kept for himself). So the winner of this auction has just one of three of these numbered sets that were created! REMEMBER THAT OUR CONSIGNOR PROMISES TO NEVER REPRINT THESE! So once again this is a great chance to get any of these really cool faux lobby sets!

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