The film pits a humble small-town lawyer against a hard-headed big city prosecutor. Emotions flare as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive, beautiful wife.

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American – who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster – investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called “The Anatomy Of The Devil”.