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Fantômas se Déchaîne

Fantomas Strikes Back
Fantomas Minaccia il Mondo / Fantômas Revient / Fantomas gegen Interpol

France / Italy 1965
produced by
Paul Cadéac, Alain Poiré for Gaumont, Produzioni Atlas Consorziate, Da Ma Produzione, Victory Film, Story Film
directed by André Hunebelle
starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Robert Dalban, Albert Dagnant, Christian Toma, Michel Duplaix, Olivier De Funès, Florence Blot, Robert Le Béal, Pietro Tordi, Henri Attal, Dominique Zardi, Jacques Marin, Max Montavon, Jean Michaud, Mino Doro, Yvan Chiffre, Eric Vasberg, Antoine Baud, André Cagnard, Arturo Dominici, Bob Morel, Antoine Marin, Bob Lerick, Pierre Palfray, Albert Daumergue, Gérard Moisan
screenplay by Jean Halain, Pierre Foucaud, based on the novels by Pierre Souvestre, Marcel Allain, music by Michel Magne

Fantomas, Fantomas (Jean Marais)

review by
Mike Haberfelner


Inspector Juve (Louis de Funès) is honoured for getting rid of Fantomas (Jean Marais) in the previous movie - but even during the ceremony, he receives a letter from the villain himself saying "see you soon", and indeed it's soon revealed that Fantomas has kidnapped an eminent scientist, professor Marchard (Albert Dagnant), who has been working on a hypnotic gun together with professor Lefèvre (Jean Marais again), and that's something no supervillain can do without. Of course, Marchard's findings are nothing without Lefèvre's contributions, so it's only logical for Fantomas to want to kidnap Lefèvre as well - and where better than on his train trip to Rome, thus Juve and his men put him under heavy guard on the train, but at the same time stay undercover to try and lure Fantomas out into the open. Meanwhile, Fandor (Jean Marais yet again), a journalist working on the Fantomas story, decides to replace professor Lefèvre on the train to ... well, not really sure, and he decides to not tell Juve but just his assistant Bertrand (Jacques Dynam) because ... not sure about that one either. Anyways, chaos erupts on the train, especially since Fantomas doesn't swallow the bait but thanks to Fandor's masquerade, everybody thinks he does. But upon the train's arrival to Rome, Fantomas manage to snatch Fandor's fiancée Hélène (Mylène Demongeot) and her kid brother Michou (Olivier De Funès), and by releasing her and keeping him, Fantomas makes her his accomplice, and so later he has an in on all things that happen to Lefèvre and pulls through a plan to kidnap the real Lefèvre while using Fandor dressed up as the professor as a smoke screen for the police. The whole affair actually gets Juve into a nuthouse, if temporarily. Then for some reason, Fantomas invites Hélène to a masque, and of course, Fandor, Juve, Bertrand and Juve's men are coming as well, and everything of course ends in utter chaos that involves a big brawl, a shoot-out, death traps, chases, a flying car, Juve falling out of an airplane (in an areal sequence that would famously become the first of its kind, filmed by camera operator Jean-Jacques Dubourg while in free fall himself), and a so-so happy ending, with the good guys getting their hands on the hypnotic gun but Fantomas escaping - to be back of course.

 

Now taking the Fantomas movies from the 1960s seriously is not really an option, they're basically a spoof not only of their source material but also of the Eurospy genre as such, sparked by the then popular James Bond series. That said, the jokes in this movie are a tad hit-or-miss, and some of the slapstick is too over-the-top, but then again, Louis de Funès screen persona, that hadn't become too much of a cliché then, is good for quite a few laughs, and seen through the glasses of nostalgia, this one's actually pretty entertaining - not always for the right reasons might you, but fun still.

 

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