6/7/2023 0 Comments Fantomas 1911![]() Fandor has a fascination with the Fantômas case and along with Juve, he works to solve the case behind the murder. ![]() This prompts an investigation by the Inspector Juve, who has a friend in reporter Jérôme Fandor. Here Fantômas hooks up with an unsavory bourgeois woman, Lady Beltham, who helps the thief carry out a scheme to murder her husband. Perhaps capitalizing on the sensationalist serial killings by England’s Jack the Ripper 20 years prior to the serial publications, Fantômas‘ stories revolve around a murderous thief stalking the streets of Paris.Ĭomprised of five films that make up the pulp serial, Fantômas begins with its first installment, Fantômas in the Shadow of the Guillotine, where we are introduced to the masked menace. ![]() A wildly popular pulp serial in France which was first created in 1911, Fantômas was one of the earliest detective thrillers of French cinema when the serials were adapted for the screen in 1913. ![]()
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