Judex (1916)

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Movie
Original title Judex
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1916
length 315 minutes
Rod
Director Louis Feuillade
script Louis Feuillade ,
Arthur Bernède
production Gaumont
music Robert Israel (Restored Version)
camera André Glatti ,
Léon Klausse
cut Léon Klausse
occupation

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
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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of publication according to the filmography in: Francis Lacassin: Louis Feuillade. Maître des lions et des vampires. Bordas, Paris 1995
  2. ↑ 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