Fantômas breaks out

Fantômas breaks out is a French film of André Hunebelle left in 1965.

It is the second shutter of trilogy of Andre Hunebelle devoted to the genius of the crime, between Fantômas left in 1964 and Fantômas against Scotland Yard left in 1967.

Synopsis

When professor Marchand, a famous inventive scientist of the telepathic ray allowing to control the human thought, disappears mysteriously, Fantômas is immediately suspected. To trap worrying it criminal, the Fandor journalist takes the place of professor Lefèvre, nearer collaborator to Merchant, at the time of a scientific congress with Rome. Unfortunately, to kidnap the scientist, Fantômas had the same idea and confusion is total…

Comment

See the article on the trilogy of Andre Hunebelle.

Data sheet

Title: Fantômas breaks out
Réalisation: Andre Hunebelle
Realization for the second team: Jacques Besnard
Scenario: Inspired of the characters of the novels of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain
Adaptation: Jean Halain and Pierre Foucaud
Dialog: Jean Halain
Assistants realizer: Jean-Pierre Desagnat, Michel Lang, Patrick Saglio, Renza Cerrato
Images: Raymond Lemoigne
Operator: Jean Benezech, Roger Delpuech and Henri Raichi, for the second team
Assistants operators: Bernard Noisette, Michel Lebon, Yves Agostini
Sound: Rene-Christian Forget, assisted of Jean Jack
Production: P.A.C, New Company of the Gaumont Establishment, Victory Films (Franco-Italian)
Associate producer: Paul Cadéac, Directing Alain Poiré
of production: Cyril Grize and Giorgio Riganti
Secretary of production: Ginette Bodin
Charged with press: Paulette Andrieux
Distribution: Gaumont
Music: Michel Magne (Editions Hydrangea)
Decorations: max Douy, assisted of Jacques Douy, Jean Forrestier, Henri Sonois
Assembly: Jean Feyte, assisted of Colette Lambert
Script girl: Charlotte Lefèvre, and for the second team Marie-Therese Cabon
Dresser: Ginette Manzon
Make-up: Rene Daudin, Anatole Paris
Hairstyles: Denise Lemoigne
Costumes: Mireille Leydet
costumier Chief: OJ Ranzato
Dresses: “Thousand and One Nights” were created for Mylène Demongeot by Jacques Heim
Photographe of plate: Roger Corbel
Model maker: Raymond Tournon
Interior designer: Andre Labussière
special Effects: Gil Delamare, Gerard Cogan, François Sune
Brawls regulated by Claude Carliez
general Manager: Paule Pastic
assistant Managers: Gilles Schneider, Maurice Touati, Luciano Pesciaroli
countable Administrators: Georges Martin-Coachman, Generic Maurice Cottrant
: The Films Bertho
Turning: Paris Studio Cinema
Format: Franscope Eastmancolor - 2:35.1 Cinemascope - Its monophonic - 35mm
Pulling: Laboratory G.T.C - Recording Westrex
Lasted: 94 minutes
Kind: Police comedy
Coming out date: December 8th 1965 in Paris

Distribution

Louis de Funès: The police superintendent Paul Juve
Jean Marsh: Fantômas/Jerome Fandor/professor Lefebvre
Mylène Demongeot: Helene Gurn, the photographer of the newspaper and been engaged of Fandor
Jacques Dynam: The inspector Michel Bertrand
Olivier de Funès: Michel, the young brother of Helene
Albert Dagnant: The professor Marchand
Robert Dalban: The writer of the newspaper “the Point of the Day”
Florence Blot: The lady which waits in the toilets of the train
Christian Tomas: An inspector
Michel Dupleix: An inspector
Philippe Castelli: The late inspector
Robert Béal: The minister decorating the police chief
Piero Tordi: The president of the assembly
Henri Attal: A bodyguard of Fantomas
Dominique Zardi: A bodyguard of Fantomas
max Montavon: The supervisor of the institute
Marine Jacques: The agent of railway police
Jean Michaud: The director of the psychiatric private clinic
Mino Doro: The Swiss professor
Yvan Quantifies: A bodyguard of Fantomas
Eric Wasberg: The false usher at the time of the assembly
Antoine Baud: A bodyguard of Fantomas
Andre Cagnard: A bodyguard of Fantomas
Arturo Dominici: The Canadian professor
Bob Morel: The man hypnotized
Antoine Marin: An inspector
Roger Lumont: An inspector (not credited)
Bob Lerich: An inspector
Pierre Palfray: A bodyguard of Fantomas (not credited)
Albert Daumergue: The waiter of the restaurant car
Raymond Pellegrin: The voice of Fantomas (not credited)
Gerard Moisan

Around film

Olivier de Funès, wire of Louis, appears for the first time at the screen in this film. He will on the whole play six times at the sides of his father, before becoming airline pilot.
the scenes of volcanic eruptions of the Vesuvius, place of the den of Fantômas, are extracted from the film Documentaire the Appointments of the devil of Haroun Tazieff.
It is the first French nuclear plant ( Chinon A1 brought into service in 1963 and which will produce electricity until in of 1973) which was used as decoration with the misdeeds of Fantômas. Part of this site is now worth visiting since this power station, quickly called the Ball because of the engine and the exchangers installed in steel a spherical building 55 meters in diameter, shelters the museum of the atom of Chinon since 1986. It is inside this swell that professor Marchand works whereas Fantômas emerges to remove it. Other plans of film were also turned to Chinon, in particular the plan where the criminal inspects an army of busy laboratory assistants in his secret den.
max Douy, the person in charge of the decorations and creator of the extravagant den of the genius of the evil, will become the decorator of one of the James Bond, Moonraker
During turning, at the time of its fifty and unième birthday, De Funès accepted a complete panoply of secret agent.
the cover of the first album of the group Fantômas represents the poster spagnole Fantômas breaks out Spanish (: Fantômas Amenaza Al Mundo ). Although the official title of the album is Fantômas (like the name of the group), much this album Amenaza Al Mundo calls.

Quotation

Louis de Funès/le Juve police chief:

Of what would you have the air if Fantômas were stopped by zero-zero-unspecified?

Regarded as insane by the Italian police force, Juve has just left a psychiatric private clinic or it was locked up, thanks to its faithful Bertrand assistant who brings back it by taxi.

Bertrand (sententious): " You know police chief, in our trade, sometimes it is better to come to pass for insane that for an imbecile… "

Juve: " Eh! well you then, you do not risk the nightshirt! ".

See too

Fantômas, universe of fiction.
Trilogy Fantômas of Andre Hunebelle

External bonds

Card IMDb
Of the photographs of films and the slides

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