- Fantômas (film)
Infobox Film
name = Fantômas
caption = Theatrical poster
director =André Hunebelle
producer = Paul Cadéac (delegate producer)
Cyril Grize (producer)
Alain Poiré (delegate producer)
writer = Pierre Souvestre (novels)
Marcel Allain (novels)
Jean Halain(screenplay)
Pierre Foucaud (screenplay)
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starring =Jean Marais Louis de Funès Mylène Demongeot
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released = flagicon|France 4 November 1964
flagicon|USA 5 April 1966
flagicon|Finland 9 April 1965
flagicon|West Germany 27 May 1966
flagicon|East Germany 23 December 1973
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country =France
language = French
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followed_by = "Fantômas se déchaîne "
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amg_id = 1:91018
imdb_id = 0058089Fantômas is a 1964 film starring
Jean Marais as the arch villain with the same name oppositeLouis de Funès as the earnest but outclassed commissaire Paul Juve. In the film Juve teams up withjournalist Fandor, also played by Marais, trying to catch Fantômas but never quite succeeding. It wasFrance 's answer, in 1964, to theJames Bond phenomenon that swept the world at around the same time. It is the first of atrilogy of Fantômas films that became extremely successful inEurope and found success even in theUnited States andJapan where fan websites exist to this day. [http://www.fantomas.jp/ Japan fan website] ]Mylène Demongeot plays "Hélène". Hélène Gurn is the sexy girlfriend of "Jérôme Fandor," Fantômas'arch enemy .The general tone of the films is more light-hearted than the original Fantômas novels. Commissaire Juve, as played by Louis de Funès, becomes a comedic character, much different from his literary counterpart.
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The Fantômas trilogy
See also
* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0058089/ IMDB on Fantômas]
* [http://home.wtal.de/olliweb/technoclassica/2003/DS%20Fantomas%2002.jpgPicture of the Fantômas Citroën DS with retractable wings that converts into an airplane]
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