“France’S Answer To Bond”
By Raymond Benson
Way back in 1911, French writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre created a super-villain who became a worldwide phenomenon in literature, comics, and film—Fantômas, a master of disguise, thief, killer, and head of his own network of criminals. The two authors wrote 32 books featuring the character, and then Allain alone continued with 11 more. There was a serial of silent films made in France beginning with Fantômas. Over the last century, more films, comics, books, and television series were produced, leading up to the hugely popular reboot of the character in the 1960s.
After the success of the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962), the French studio Gaumont quickly got into the act of making their own answer to what was becoming a phenomenon. Once From Russia with Love (1963) proved that 007 wasn’t a one-shot wonder, director André Hunebelle and writers Jean Halain...
By Raymond Benson
Way back in 1911, French writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre created a super-villain who became a worldwide phenomenon in literature, comics, and film—Fantômas, a master of disguise, thief, killer, and head of his own network of criminals. The two authors wrote 32 books featuring the character, and then Allain alone continued with 11 more. There was a serial of silent films made in France beginning with Fantômas. Over the last century, more films, comics, books, and television series were produced, leading up to the hugely popular reboot of the character in the 1960s.
After the success of the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962), the French studio Gaumont quickly got into the act of making their own answer to what was becoming a phenomenon. Once From Russia with Love (1963) proved that 007 wasn’t a one-shot wonder, director André Hunebelle and writers Jean Halain...
- 5/1/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Fantômas – Three Film Collection
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1964, 1965, 1967 / 2.35 : 1 / 322 Min.
Starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
Directed by André Hunebelle
Eighteen years after playing the duel roles of an aristocratic monster and his swashbuckling adversary in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, Jean Marais got the chance for a reprise – this time as a two-fisted reporter named Fandor and his bête noire, the otherworldly antihero Fantômas.
He (they?) were the protagonists of a colorful trio of swinging sixties satires directed by André Hunebelle between 1964 and 1967 – each chapter was the CinemaScope equivalent of a chocolate sorbet and loaded with the same self-amused ironies of the French New Wave and the Batman TV show.
Fantômas even has his own Batcave, plotting his next move from a luxurious underground lair seemingly decorated by Captain Nemo and the Phantom of the Opera. The very definition of a protean figure, this phantom rotates...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1964, 1965, 1967 / 2.35 : 1 / 322 Min.
Starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
Directed by André Hunebelle
Eighteen years after playing the duel roles of an aristocratic monster and his swashbuckling adversary in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, Jean Marais got the chance for a reprise – this time as a two-fisted reporter named Fandor and his bête noire, the otherworldly antihero Fantômas.
He (they?) were the protagonists of a colorful trio of swinging sixties satires directed by André Hunebelle between 1964 and 1967 – each chapter was the CinemaScope equivalent of a chocolate sorbet and loaded with the same self-amused ironies of the French New Wave and the Batman TV show.
Fantômas even has his own Batcave, plotting his next move from a luxurious underground lair seemingly decorated by Captain Nemo and the Phantom of the Opera. The very definition of a protean figure, this phantom rotates...
- 5/21/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
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