Fantômas (1964 film)
- Jean Marais: Fantômas / Fandor
- Louis de Funès: Commissioner Juve
- Mylène Demongeot: Hélène
- Marie -Hélène Arnaud: Lady Beltham
- Robert Dalban: Editor in Chief
- Jacques Dynam: Inspector Bertrand
- Pierre Collet: policeman
Fantômas is a French comedy thriller from director André Hunebelle from the year 1964. The movie uses motifs from the novel by the French author Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain and got due to his success two follow-up films, 1965 Fantomas against Interpol ( Fantômas se déchaîne ) and 1967 Fantomas threatens the world ( Fantômas contre Scotland Yard ).
Action
Fantomas, a brilliant criminal who commits his actions behind the shifting masks, takes revenge on the journalist Fandor, who wrote a fake newspaper article about him by kidnapped him and wants to remove his brain for the creation of a perfect man. In order to have an excuse for Fandors death, he will give him shall be deemed criminal. Commissioner Paul believes Juve soon that Fandor Fantômas is. Fantômas also abducted Helen, the fiancée of Fandor, into which he has fallen in love. His friend Lady Beltham is jealous of Helen. As Fantomas commits in the form of Juve crime, the Commissioner is arrested by the stubborn inspector Bertrand. Some time later Fandor and Helene of Lady Beltham be brought to a car with which they will help you escape them supposedly. In reality she has sabotaged the car to kill them both and to have Fantomas for themselves. When they roar in a horror trip to a farm, Fandor is arrested for speeding and locked to Juve. Soon Fantomas appears as a prison guard to now both abusing the brains for his project and creates her away in a prison van. After some time it comes to an auto accident, come free with the Juve and Fandor and track Fantomas to the sea. But the criminal is technically well equipped, that he can escape with the help of a submarine, while Juve and Fandor paddle in the sea, and finally hoisted by Helene in a rowboat.
Synchronization
The dialog book was written by Ursula Buschow and dialogue was directed by Edgar Flatau.
Reviews
" Farcical, the second half of fast-paced entertainment that has more serene entanglements as scary to the goal. "
" The Lord of Terror has evolved into a kind of bogeyman. Long live the dud. Funny, outrageous sparkling staged, the cast simply superb; a delicious, entertaining satire. Louis de Funès ' breakthrough to the first comedian in France. "
" Because of the negative per se material was completely defused in this humorous version, the set into the picture with wit and technical skill streaks is quite possible after only 16. "
Premieres
The film had premiere in France on 4 November 1964 in the U.S. on 5 April 1966 and in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the GDR, the film was first shown on 23 December 1973 at the television on May 27, 1966.
Media
- Fantomas ( Limited Edition, all three films, UFA DVD with bonus footage) ( The movies are also available as a single DVD )
- Fantomas trilogy (all three films in German in a box in HD ) (the movies are also available as a single Blu -ray)
- Fantomas 70 (sampler CD with music from all three films ), Universal France 013476-2