Fantomas threatens the world
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| German title | Fantomas threatens the world |
| Original title | Fantômas versus Scotland Yard |
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| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | André Hunebelle |
| script |
Pierre Souvestre , Marcel Allain |
| production |
Paul Cadéac , Alain Poiré |
| music | Michel Magne |
| camera | Marcel Grignon |
| cut | Pierre Gillette |
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| chronology | |
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Fantomas threatens the world (alternatively Fantomas versus Scotland Yard ) is a French crime comedy from 1967 and the third part of the trilogy of the same name about the ingenious criminal Fantômas .
action
Fantômas wants to blackmail the wealthy Scottish Lord McRashley. He has devised a tax system, also for other super-rich: After a certain period a certain amount has to be paid, otherwise there will be an "enforcement" - the "tax evader" will be murdered. The lord asks for help from Commissioner Juve, who already has experience with the cunning crook. Juve immediately travels with his simple-minded assistant Bertrand, the reporter Fandor and his fiancé Hélène to the lord's castle in Scotland. Strange things happen there: the mistress tries to make contact with a dead victim of Fantomas' by trance, and every evening Juve sees a "hanged man" on his ceiling. On the hanged man there is always a pink piece of paper (like from the tax) that reads: “Last warning before enforcement.” On the annual fox hunt, which everyone rides, Fandor's fiancée Hélène watches as the alleged Lord McRashley in the fight his secretary, who is in love with the lord's wife, loses his mask. Then Hélène is to be eliminated so that the camouflage remains. Fandor prevents this. Together the two Fantomas set a trap. But the plan fails because Inspector Juve rushes to the aid of the wrong lord. With diamonds worth a million pounds sterling, which he extorted as taxes for the right to live, Fantomas manages to escape again this time.
World premieres
- France: March 16, 1967
- Germany: June 20, 1967
synchronization
In the third and final part, Marais had the same voice actor for both roles. Here again, only a change of voice was made between Fantomas and Lord McRashley, so that the viewer knew when Fantomas had taken Lord McRashley's place. Karlheinz Brunnemann was responsible for the dialogue direction and script, who was later also responsible for the synchronization with Rainer Brandt for Department S and Die 2 .
| role | actor | German voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Fantomas / Fandor | Jean Marais | Arnold Marquis |
| Inspector Juve | Louis de Funès | Gerd Martienzen |
| Hélène | Mylène Demongeot | Maria Koerber |
| Inspector Bertrand | Jacques Dynam | Gerd Duwner |
| Lord McRashley | Jean-Roger Caussimon |
Curt Ackermann Arnold Marquis |
| Lady McRashley | Françoise Christophe | Tilly Lauenstein |
| André Berthier | Henri Serre | Karlheinz Brunnemann |
| Mafia boss | Guy Delorme | Heinz Petruo |
| Newspaper publisher | Robert Dalban | Toni Herbert |
Reviews and honors
Above all, the film was praised for the fact that the confusion surrounding Fantômas' masks is played convincingly and one cannot always tell whether one is seeing the "original" or Fantômas. Nevertheless, the viewer can understand the plot perfectly. In terms of content and quality, the film does not lag behind the others. Fantômas Threatening the World was shown at the 1967 Moscow Film Festival.
"Fantastic adventure without great tension and depth, but again with a very funny Louis de Funes."
"The ideas of this crime grotesque are visibly starting to dry up, which is why Louis de Funès, who is hilarious in itself, is only moderately entertaining here."
Locations
No actor left France for the production:
- Only the drive for the title sequence was not far from Glasgow.
- The exterior shots of the castle were taken in the Gironde ,
- the interior shots completely in the studio.
- The hunt was filmed in the forest of Fontainebleau , recognizable by the sandy soil (absolutely atypical for Scotland).
media
DVDs:
- Fantomas (Limited Edition, all three films, UFA DVDs with bonus material) (The films are also available as individual DVDs)
Blu-rays:
- Fantomas trilogy (all three films in German in a box in HD) (the films are also available as single Blu-ray)
Film music:
- Fantomas 70 (sampler CD with music from all three films), Universal France 013 476-2
See also
Web links
- Fantômas contre Scotland Yard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fantomas threatens the world in the online film database
- Fantomas threatens the world in the German dubbing index
- Review with pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ World premieres according to IMDb
- ↑ Fantomas threatens the world in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Fantomas threatens the world. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 21, 2016 .