Mr. Fantômas (1937)

Monsieur Fantômas is very rich in terms of surrealist images― e.g. three mysterious masked men cycling across the beach in slow motion, Inspector Juve’s assistants breaking down a door in the middle of the sand with the help of a gigantic key used as a battering ram, the two lovers' romantic and rather gripping walk along the seaside (he is masked, while she is wearing a nun’s wimple and a swimming suit) hand in hand... But one image stands out from all the rest: the sequence in which Fantômas is surrounded by police.

Released Dec. 29, 1937 17 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, tmdb.phantom, imdb.character-name-in-title

Production Companies: Films Hagen-Tronje

Country: Belgium
Languages: No Language, French