It is the first film of trilogy of Andre Hunebelle devoted to the front criminal Fantômas se déchaîne in 1965 and Fantômas countre Scotland Yard in 1967.

♦ Synopsis :

Fandor, persuaded that Fantômas is an invention of the police force to hide its impotence to entreat the crime, bidonne an interview of the genius of the crime for its newspaper The Point of the Day. Offended, Fantômas removes the journalist and gives him two days to reveal imposture. On his side, intrigued by the article, the Juve police chief decides to question hardly released Fandor, preventing it from providing a denial. During this time, without informing some, its owner publishes an article worse than the first and signed… Fandor. The journalist is again removed by Fantômas which decides to be avenged to commit crimes under the appearance of this one thanks to a mask.

♦ Specification sheet :

• Title : Fantômas
• Realization : André Hunebelle and Jacques Besnard (for the second team)
• Scenario : According to the characters of the novel of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre "Fantomas"
• Adaptation : Jean Halain, Pierre Foucaud (on authorization of Marcel Allain)
• Dialogue : Jean Halain
• Production assistants : Jean-Pierre Cazenave and Jean-Pierre Desagnat for the second team
• Images : Marcel Grignon and Jean Tournier (for the second team)
• Operator : André Dommage, assisted of Maurice Delille. For the second team Jean Benézech, assisted of André Marquette and Emmanuel Machuel
• Decorations : Paul-Louis Boutié, assisted of Henri Sonois and Théo Meurisse
• Music : Michel Magne (Edition Hortensia)
• Sound : René-Christian Forget
• Perchman : Jean Jack
• Recorder : Vartan Karakeusian
• Editing : Jean Feyte, assisted of Colette Lambert and Ginou Billot
• Suits create by Mireille Leydet
• Wardrobe master : Luce Boulais
• Dresses : "Lady Beltham" is dressed by Marie-Hélène Arnaud - The dresses of Mylène Demongeot are created by Réal
• Jewels : of "Van Cleef" and "Arpels"
• Special effect : Gil Delamare, Gérard Cogan
• Fights settled by Claude Carliez
• Maritime technical adviser : Alain Boisnard
• Make-up : Blanche Picot, René Daudin
• Property man : François Sune
• Hairdresser : Yvonne Gasperina
• General manager : Roger Boulais
• Assistant manager : Maurice Touati, Pierre Pardon
• Script-girl : Charlotte Lefèvre et Marie-Hélène Cabon, for the second team
• Photographer of tray : Roger Corbeau
• Interior designer : Robert Turlure
• Shooting in the studios of "Boulogne"
• Film 35mm, Eastmancolor, Franscope
• Recording : Westrex Society - Auditorium SIMO
• Edition : Laboratory G.T.C of Joinville
• Production : P.A.C, New Society of Etablishments Gaumont, P.C.M
• Director of production : Paul Cadéac, Cyril Grize, Alain Poiré
• Producer's assistant : Charlotte Choquert
• Countable administrator : Maurice Cottrand
• Stick of press : Paulette Andriux
• Mixage : Jacques Maumont
• Distribution : Gaumont
• Country origin : France / Italy
• Duration : 105 minutes
• Genre : Policeman comedy
• Date exit :
• France : November 4th, 1964

 

♦ Distribution :

• Louis de Funès : The police captain Paul Juve
• Jean Marais : Jérôme Fandor/Fantômas
• Mylène Demongeot : Hélène Gurn
• Jacques Dynam : The inspector Michel Bertrand
• Robert Dalban : The director of the newspaper
• Christian Toma : The inspector
• Marie-Hélène Arnaud : Lady Maud Beltham
• Andrée Tainsy : The dresser during the parade of jewels
• Gabrielle Doulcet : The lady witness, during the reconstruction
• Anne-Marie Peysson : The presenter of the television
• Pierre Collet : The agent who arrests the police captain Juve
• Henri Attal : The bodyguard of Fantomas
• Dominique Zardi : The bodyguard of Fantomas
• Michel Dupleix : The inspector
• Gaston Meunier : The player to the casino
• Bernard Musson : The other agent who arrests the police captain Juve
• Marc Arian : The guest and the player
• Marius Gaidon : The agent to the commissionership
• Jean-Paul Blonday :The guest
• Albert Daumergue :The guest
• André Badin : The salesman of the jeweller's shop
• Charles Bayard : The serviceman in the eyeglass
• Georges Adet : A witness during the reconstruction
• Henri Coutet : A witness during the reconstruction
• Philippe Castelli : The agent in faction
• Yvan Chiffre : The hired man of Fantômas
• Michel Charrel : The hired man of Fantômas
• Jean Minisini : The hired man of Fantômas
• Jean Blancheur : A witness during the reconstruction
• Andrès : A witness during the reconstruction
• Rudy Lenoir : The desk clerk and the guard-leader of the prison
• Rémy Julienne : The stuntman in motorcycle
• Jean-Louis Allibert
• Hugues Wanner
• Henri Guegan
• Jean Berger
• Jacques de Lanoye
• André Hunebelle
• Jean Luisini 
• André Dumas
• Raymond Pellegrin : The « voice » of Fantômas

♦ Around the film :

• With 4,5 million spectators in rooms, it was one of great successes of the year, year of all successes for Louis de Funès since left too the Nitwit and especially Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez who sat his popularity definitively. *** the nitwit left in March 65
• Rémy Julienne its career began from stuntman with the cinema in the large scene of race-continuation which close film. It was recruited because he was then champion of motocross.
• The film will make more than 60 semilet us bind entries in The USSR ; a success such as one considered a time one Fantômas in Moscow.
• Louis de Funès was wounded at the time of the scene where it is suspended by the arms with a crane with the top of Paris. Even if it were only with only one meter of the ground, "certain nervous trunks, stretched by this long suspension, had caused a paralysis of the muscles of the shoulder". The actor will spend several years to recover, partly, his capacities.
• New Fantômas was announced in 2002 with Jean Réno and Jose Garcia in the titles roles. The project which was to carry out Forest Frederic at the end of 2002 is kept in reserve at "the Small Queen", the company production of Thomas Langmann.
• The film La diablesse au 1000 visages of Chung Chang-wha (1969) takes as a starting point indubitable way of Fantômas de Hunnebelle. Element cocasse, the hanging ones of Fantômas and Fandor are women, a called robber the "she-devil" and a journalist, whereas that of Helene is a photographer.

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