Fantômas contre Scotland Yard

• Jean Marais: Fantomas / Fandor
• Louis de Funès: Commissioner Juve
• Mylène Demongeot: Hélène
• Jacques Dynam Bertrand
• Françoise Christophe: Lady McRashley
• Jean -Roger Caussimon: Lord McRashley
• Henri Serre: André Berthier

Fantomas threatens the world (alternatively Fantomas against Scotland Yard ) is a French comedy thriller from 1967, and the third part of the same trilogy about the brilliant criminal Fantômas.

Action

Fantômas wants to blackmail the wealthy Scottish Lord McRashley. He has a control system for other super-rich, thought: After a certain period, a certain amount must be paid, otherwise an " enforcement " - the " tax evaders " is murdered. The Lord asks Commissioner Juve for help, who already has experience with the crafty crooks. Juve will travel immediately with his simple-minded assistant Bertrand, the reporter Fandor and his fiancée Hélène to Scotland on the castle of the Lords. There, strange things happen: The mistress trying to contact a dead victim of Fantomas ' to be covered by trance, and Juve sees every night a " hanging man " at his ceiling. On the hanged man always sticks a pink piece of paper (like from the control ), reads: ". Recent warning of enforcement " on the annual fox hunt, in which each mitreitet observed Fandors fiancée Hélène how the alleged Lord McRashley fighting his secretary, who is in love with the wife of the Lord, loses his mask. Then Hélène should be eliminated so that the camouflage remains. Fandor prevents this. Together, the two Fantomas a trap. But the plan fails because Juve Commissioner informs the false Lord for help. With diamonds worth a million pounds sterling, which he has as a tax for the right to live, blackmailed, Fantomas succeed this time to escape.

Synchronization

In the third and final part of the Marais had the same voice actor for both roles. Here again, only a voice exchange between Fantomas and Lord McRashley was done so that the audience knew when Fantomas Lord McRashleys had taken place. The dialogue director and was responsible for carrying Karlheinz Briinnemann, who also later with Rainer Brandt for synchronization to Department S and The 2 was responsible.

Reviews and Awards

The film was especially praised for the confusion surrounding Fantômas ' masks is played convincingly and you can not always tell if you can see the "original" or Fantômas. Nevertheless, the audience can understand the story properly. The film remains content and quality not behind the others. Fantômas threatens the world was shown at the Moscow Film Festival in 1967.

" Fantastic adventure without great tension and depth, but again with a very funny Louis de Funes. "

" The ideas of this crime clearly grotesque begin to dry up, hence the hilarious se Louis de Funès can only moderately entertained. "

Media

• Fantomas ( Limited Edition, all three films, UFA DVD with bonus footage) ( The movies are also available as a single DVD )

Blurays:

• Fantomas ( trilogy BDs with bonus material )

Film Music:

• Fantomas 70 (sampler CD with music from all three films ), Universal France 013476-2