SPIES Movie Review

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A master criminal (Rudolph Klein-Rogge) poses as a reputable, well-recognized financier in order to gain access to secret government plans and instigate worldwide economic chaos. Fritz Lang's lively, highly enjoyable 1928 thriller gives Klein-Rogge—the mad scientist of Metropolis and the fiendish mastermind of Dr. Mabuse—another opportunity to place all of civilization in peril. Rolling all the thrills, chases, and stunts of a 13-episode serial into one sleek, compact, 90-minute entertainment, Lang's breathless adventure is packed with seductive female spies, ingenious traps, and breathtaking, expressionist sets and scenery. Spies remains one of the most suspenseful, inventive, and purely enjoyable thrillers of the silent era.

NEXT STOP … Dr. Mabuse, M, The 39 Steps

1928 88m/B GE Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Lupu Pick, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch; D: Fritz Lang. VHS, LV GPV, NOS, VYY