Judex (1916)
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Original title | Judex |
Country of production | France |
original language | French |
Publishing year | 1916 |
length | 315 minutes |
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Director | Louis Feuillade |
script |
Louis Feuillade , Arthur Bernède |
production | Gaumont |
music | Robert Israel (Restored Version) |
camera |
André Glatti , Léon Klausse |
cut | Léon Klausse |
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Judex is a twelve-part French silent movie - Serial of Louis Feuillade from the year 1917 through one of the first clad avenger in film history. Published in the United States under the title The Hand of Vengeance . After the popular series Fantômas and Les Vampires were harshly attacked by film reviews for allegedly glorifying crime, Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède created a law-abiding hero who sometimes anticipates features of Batman . In 1918 a second series followed under the title La nouvelle mission de Judex .
action
The fraudulent banker Favraux receives a request signed Judex ( Latin for 'judge') to compensate his victims for the damage, otherwise he would not survive the day. Favraux ignores the message and is promptly poisoned at the engagement party for his daughter that evening. She finds a message from Judex and, after learning from her father's secretary Vallières that the banker was a criminal, donates the entire legacy of welfare. It later turns out that Favraux is not really dead, but rather that Judex drugged and kidnapped him to make him atone for his crimes in the cellars of the Château rouge in life imprisonment. When the criminal couple Diana Monti and Robert Morales find out, they try to get Favraux into their hands in order to reclaim the fortune that his daughter had knocked out. There follow involved kidnapping and blackmailing actions, during which Judex has to save Jacqueline Favraux several times, falling in love with her and therefore coming into conflict with his mission as an avenger.
Episodes
No. | title | date | length |
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1 | Prologue / L'Ombre mystérieuse (The Mysterious Shadow) | January 19, 1917 | 1262 m |
2 | L'Expiation (Atonement) | January 27, 1917 | 660 m |
3 | La Meute fantastique (The Fantastic Hounds) | February 3, 1917 | 762 m |
4th | Le Secret d'une tombe (The Secret of the Tomb) | February 10, 1917 | 488 m |
5 | Le Moulin tragique (The Tragic Mill) | February 17, 1917 | 742 m |
6th | Le Môme réglisse (The Licorice Kid) | February 24, 1917 | 816 m |
7th | La Femme en noir (The Woman in Black) | March 3, 1917 | 853 m |
8th | Les Souterrains du château rouge (The Dungeons of the Chateau Rouge) | March 10, 1917 | 638 m |
9 | Lorsque l'enfant parut (When the Child Appears) | March 17, 1917 | 600 m |
10 | Le Secret de Jacqueline (The Heart of Jacqueline) | March 24, 1917 | 484 m |
11 | L'Ondine… et Sirène (The Water Sprite) | March 31, 1917 | 427 m |
12 | Le Pardon d'amour (The Forgiveness of Love) | April 7, 1917 | 436 m |
DVD release
United States: Judex. Flicker Alley 2004. 2 DVD, Region 1 / NTSC, only English subtitles. Extras: 18-minute feature on Robert Israel's new score.
Web links
- Judex in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Judex on the Progressive Silent Film List . (English) Accessed February 6, 2012
- Judex on Le cinéma français . Includes illustrated French synopsis of all episodes. Accessed February 6, 2012
- Judex at www.filmreference.com Images and Bibliography. (English) Accessed February 6, 2012
- Detailed review of the US DVD by Flicker Alley . (English) Accessed February 6, 2012
- Contents and information on the history of effects. ( Memento of June 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English) Accessed February 6, 2012
- Geoff Gardner: Buried Treasure: Feuillade and Franju on DVD. April 5th, 2005 on Senses Of Cinema . (English) Accessed February 6, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ^ Date of publication according to the filmography in: Francis Lacassin: Louis Feuillade. Maître des lions et des vampires. Bordas, Paris 1995
- ↑ Length of the film in meters. An exact duration cannot be derived from this, since the playback speed in the early silent film was mostly between 14 and 18 frames per second, increased to around 20 to 25 in the course of the 1920s. A fixed playback speed was only established in connection with the sound film. See the articles Cinema and History of Cinema