Fantomas : three film collection / Gaumont presents ; a France-Italy P.A.C.-S.N.E.G, P.C.M. production ; a Andre Hunebelle film ; dialogue by Jean Halain.
Publisher:
Kino Lorber,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
2 videodiscs (304 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot. Title from container. Based on the novels by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. Special features: audio commentaries by film historian Tim Lucas; theatrical trailers.
Pierre Souvestre's Fantomas was originally adapted for the screen by legendary filmmaker Louis Feuilade (Les vampires) in 1913. Andre Hunebelle (OSS 117 : mission for a killer) introduced a revamped and modernized version of Fantomas to the 1960s OSS 117 and 007 audience. All three films starred the great Jean Marais (Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast) as Fantomas, a criminal mastermind and man of a thousand faces. The three films co-starred Louis de Funes as Le commissaire Juve, Mylene Demongeot as Helene, Jacques Dynam as L'inspecteur Bertrand and Robert Dalban as Le directeur du journal. The first film, Fantomas, was released in 1964, followed by Fantomas unleashed in 1965 and Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard in 1967. All three films were beautifully shot in 'Scope, the first two in Eastmancolor and the finale in technicolor.
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