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Fantômas

France 1932
produced by
Pierre Braunberger, Roger Richebé for Les Établissements Braunberger-Richebé
directed by Pál Fejös
starring Thomy Bourdelle, Tania Fédor, Jean Worms, George Rigaud, Anielka Elter, Roger Karl, Maurice Schutz, Gaston Modot, Marie-Laure, Jean Galland, Philippe Richard, Georges Mauloy, Paul Azais, Pierre Hot, Fred Pasquali, Georges Paulais, Rigatto
screenplay by Pál Fejös, based on the novel by Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, adaptation and dialogue by Anne Mauclair

Fantomas

review by
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The Marquise de Langrune (Marie-Laure) has invited all of her high society friends to her mansion in the middle of nowhere, which she is about to sell to Lord Beltham (Jean Worms). Of course, master criminal Fantomas has also announced himself (uninvited of course) and has threatened to kill someone in the house - which he does, and not just anyone but the Marquise herself who had a large lump of money in her room. Inspector Juve (Thomy Bourdelle), arch enemy of Fantomas, arrives on the scene only minutes too late, but this time around, Fantomas has left two ear witnesses behind who could identify him by his voice, Lord Beltham and Princess Sonia (Anielka Elter).

And even though Fantomas was more than successful to cover up all of his tracks, Juve is quick to identify him as monsieur Rambert (Jean Galland), the one guy with a watertight alibi - he was on a train during the time of the murder for which there are plenty of witnesses ... but, as Juve points out, he could have left the train at one point, snatched Lady Beltham's (Tania Fédor) airplane - airplane noise has been heard both before and after the murder -, could have done the deed, and then caught up with the train without anybody noticing he has been gone. Rambert/Fantomas manages to escape through some secret passageways though ...

Juve now makes an effort to guard the life of Princess Sonia, but all of his efforts are in vain, and she's killed right under Juve's nose.

Lord Beltham is an enthusiastic racecar driver, but at his latest race he makes a terrible discovery: The voice of the friend his wife has brought to watch the thing with her, a certain monsieur Brun (Jean Galland again) is actually that he heard right after the killing of the Marquise - and thus Brun must be Fantomas. Beltham calls Juve immediately, but before he can spill the beans, he dies in what seems to be a normal race accident, but was actually carefully fabricated by Fantomas.

It doesn't take Juve long though to find out that Fantomas is Brun, and that Lady Beltham is probably his accomplice, and ultimately he lures Fantomas into a trap and manages to arrest him - only to in the end witness Fantomas blow up the police car taking him to jail and escape again ...

 

The films of the Fantomas-series Louis Feuillade made from 1913 to 1914 were sytylistically trailblazing masterpieces of early pulp cinema. This film on the other hand, not so much so. Actually it is a rather pedestrian pulpy murder mystery with all the familiar elements firmly in place and little in terms of surprise. And the direction is way too stagey for its own good. That all isn't to say the film isn't at least some fun in a nostalgic way ... just don't expect anything much, or you'll be disappointed.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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