A 1933 German sound film by Fritz Lang in which the institutionalized Dr. Mabuse dictates manifestos from a mental asylum -- making the film an anti-Nazi allegory.
Demonstrated that the criminal mastermind villain is a political figure -- his instructions are ideology.
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