“I’ll show you some mesmerism, you Mormon bastard! YOU WILL GIVE US BACK OUR WOMEN! OUR WOMEN!”
I finally catch up with the first epic chapter in the career of my favorite cinematic supervillain, and find the man who would be Mabuse. Disguises, cons, seduction, murder, mayhem, and a lot more murder in Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. It’s all part of this month’s B-Masters Roundtable.
Ken Begg is the proprietor of Jabootu: The Bad Movie Dimension.
#1 by KeithA on August 26th, 2008
Great Scott! That man was bitten by a radioactive Martin Van Buren!
#2 by PCachu on August 26th, 2008
Worst. Superpower. Ever.
#3 by KeithA on August 26th, 2008
Speak for yourself. As someone with a genetic inability to grow facial hair any more substantial than what a 15 year old hood might sport, I would enjoy the superpower to sprout massive muttonchops at will.
#4 by lyzard on August 26th, 2008
Hey, at least you live in New New York, right?
“Head Museum: 1820 – 1887 ‘The Golden Age of the Mutton Chop”
#5 by PCachu on August 27th, 2008
Personally I’d prefer to have been bitten by a radioactive Rutherford B. Hayes. As Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz put it, there’s no beard like 19th Century beard.
#6 by Luke Blanchard on August 27th, 2008
This has been a really fascinating round table.
#7 by Blake Matthews on August 27th, 2008
Are the others going to participate in it?
#8 by El Santo on August 27th, 2008
Supposedly, although we’ve not heard from them in a while. You’re not going to believe what Will Braineater is cooking up…