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Fantômas

Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine

France

1913

54 Min
Black and White
1.33:1
Silent
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DIR Louis Feuillade

PROD Romeo Bosetti

SCR Marcel Allain, Louis Feuillade, Pierre Souvestre

DP Georges Guérin

CAST René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl, Jane Faber, Yvette Andréyor

ED Georges Guérin

PROD DES Robert-Jules Garnier

MUSIC Paul Fosse

Synopsis

Fantômas makes it as the emperor of Crime. First is the robbery at the Royal Palace Hotel. Then he abducts Lord Beltham. As Fantômas’ fame increases actor Valgrand creates the rôle of public enemy No.1 on stage. Eventually Inspector Juve, with a little help from Fandor, arrests Fantômas and he is soon sentenced to die on the guillotine. —IMDb

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Louis Feuillade

Louis Feuillade was an important and extremely prolific director of early silent films. Born in Lunel, France, Feuillade attended a Catholic seminary as a boy and then served four years in the cavalry before moving to Paris in 1898. By 1902, he had become a writer for the Right Wing royalist press and four years later began working in French film as a screenwriter. A short time after that, he began directing films. In 1907, Feuillade was appointed chief of production in charge of supervising all of Gaumont films, a job he did in addition to directing. During his less-than 20-year career, the hard-working Feuillade directed over 800 films of different lengths and a wide variety of genres; he also wrote at least 100 film scripts for other directors. In 1915, he served in the French army but was seriously wounded and discharged. Feuillade is best remembered for directing the Fantomas and the Vampire series of fantasies and for being the first to utilize the camera techniques that would… read more

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Tosh Berman

9Jul09

I have both the French and British DVD of this film. Remarkable work on so many levels.

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