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Director:
André Hunebelle
Writers:
Pierre Souvestre (novels) and
Marcel Allain (novels) ...
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Release Date:
4 November 1964 (France) more
Tagline:
Men Hunt Him Down - Women Look Him Up! Super-Thief ... Master Lover ... He's out to ransack the world!
Plot:
Le journaliste Fandor invente une interview avec le mystérieux Fantomas. Fantomas s'indigne et enlève... more | add synopsis
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FANTOMAS (Andre' Hunebelle, 1964) **1/2 more (8 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Fantomas 70 (Italy)
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Runtime:
105 min
Country:
France | Italy
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
P.A.C. more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This movie inspired the German name of Donald Duck's alter ego, Phantomias (a superhero spoof where he battles crime at night). more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Operation: Secret Agents, Spies & Thighs (2007) (V) more

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FANTOMAS (Andre' Hunebelle, 1964) **1/2, 18 August 2006
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Author: MARIO GAUCI (marrod@melita.com) from Naxxar, Malta

I had always been intrigued by the exploits of this famous criminal mastermind, and especially its initial cinematic adaptation via the Silent Serial of 1913-14 made by Louis Feuillade (whose French 2-DVD Set I purchased, rather costly, and enjoyed a great deal). Another interesting version was the 1932 Paul Fejos film, which recently turned up on late-night Italian TV (in the original language!) - but I missed out on it because at the time I was in Hollywood!!

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from the Sixties revival but, as it turned out, it's a likable - and stylish - enough triptych, even if it's somewhat unbalanced by the comic relief (which increased with each new entry). Also, since I watched the three films back-to-back, they've become more or less interchangeable in my mind - especially given the fact that they have much the same cast and crew!

It's interesting that Jean Marais has a dual role - as had been the case with Jean Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946), where he was hidden behind an amazing animal make-up for virtually the entire film, as well as playing the rather bland hero - as both Fantomas (his features are still recognizable behind the rather wonderful blank-faced mask) and the intrepid reporter hero (at which he managed to be credible, despite being 50 years old!), with an equally brave partner (the lovely Mylene Demongeot) in tow; while popular comic Louis De Funes appears as Commissioner Juve, forever in pursuit of the elusive and fiendish criminal, abetted - but more often hindered - by a rotund Inspector played by Jacques Dynam.

Unfortunately, the film aspired more to the tongue-in-cheek approach, colorful scenery and the gadget-heavy thrills of the James Bond extravaganzas (featuring even a similar score!) rather than the poetic touch - which went hand in hand with the inherent surrealism of such fare - which Georges Franju gave to a contemporaneous remake/compression of another Feuillade Silent Serial, JUDEX (1963; the original was released in 1916-17). Perhaps the best scene(s) of the film is the extended set-piece at the climax in which Fantomas utilizes five separate means of transportation - train, car, motorbike, boat, submarine - in order to escape the clutches of the Law (successfully).

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