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Fantômas

Fantômas

1964
Comedy
Crime
1h 44m
Criminal mastermind Fantômas, a man of a thousand faces, is unhappy with Fandor, a journalist whose written a fictive interview of him. He kidnaps Fandor, threatens to kill him, but first goes about ruining the journalist's reputation by committing a sensational crime in Fandor's guise. Hot on the trail is police Commissaire Juve, so Fantômas commits a crime looking like him. Soon, our intrepid heroes, Fandor and Juve, with the help of Fandor's girlfriend Hélène, are on the mastermind's trail, but who's in control? (IMDB)
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Fantômas

1964
Comedy
Crime
1h 44m
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Rated 10 Oct 2010
8
55th
Goofy fun.
Rated 01 Jun 2019
65
47th
Jean Marais, who played The Beast in Jean Cocteau's classic BELLE ET LA BETE (which was itself shamelessly ripped off and dumbed down for the DisCorp version) here plays both hero and villain in a flashy '60s caper picture filled with confused identities and frenetic chases. Marais performs some really eye-opening stunts that appear to be genuinely dangerous.
Rated 07 Apr 2022
57
57th
This automatically draws comparisons with Bava's Diabolik, another 60’s supervillain flick, and sadly it doesn’t reach that level. It’s more old fashioned, not as “hip” and some of the humor is too silly for my taste. Fantomas himself is cool and deserved more screen time as most attention is given to the journalist and commissioner who are less interesting. Production values are high, especially the secret lair and there’s an impressive chase towards the end with changing means of transport.

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