In the midst of a reign of terror by the mysterious supervillain Fantomas (Jean Marais), newspaper reporter Fandor (Marais, again) and photographer Helene (Mylene Demongeot) stage a mock interview with the villain that incurs Fantomas’ wrath. Kidnapping Fandor, Fantomas pulls off an audacious jewel robbery disguised as the reporter and then another heist posing as his nemesis, police inspector Juve … Read the rest
Category: France
Blood On My Hands (Yves Boisset, France/Italy, 1970)
After Robert Dassa (Pierre Massimi) is viciously beaten and then thrown to his death from a rooftop car park his sister Helene (Francoise Fabian) takes over the running of his nightclub but is brutally assaulted by the same men, thugs seeking to use the club to push drugs on behalf of crimelord Tavernier (Francis Cosne). However Robert’s friend Dan Rover … Read the rest
Weekend At Dunkirk (Henri Verneuil, France, 1964)
At Dunkirk, Sergeant Maillat (Jean-Paul Belmondo) finds himself stranded with three comrades; the perpetually armed Pinot (Georges Gerat), water fetcher Dhery (Pierre Mondy) and Pierson (Jean-Pierre Marielle) the former priest turned soldier with whom Maillat engages in sporadic theological debate. Under constant aerial bombardment Maillat attempts to secure permission from a British officer to join a ship departing for England … Read the rest
Last Known Address (Jose Giovanni, France, 1970)
Leonetti (Lino Ventura) is a tough, experienced copper who after nicking a lawyer’s son for drunkenness ends up reassigned because the kid’s father has political connections. Kicking his heels in the sticks Leonetti finds himself teamed with a rookie cop named Jeanne Dumas (Marlene Jobert) in the search for an important witness in a major criminal trial. But as the … Read the rest
This Sweet Sickness (Claude Miller, France, 1977)
Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend Lise (Dominique Laffin), an accountant named David (Gerard Depardieu) builds a cabin in the forest outside of town that he furnishes in the expectation Lise will move in with him. As David bombards Lise with letters, phone calls and personal visits – much to the annoyance of Lise’s husband – David becomes the object of affection … Read the rest
Le Serpent (Henri Verneuil, France/Italy, 1973)
A Russian Colonel named Vlassov (Yul Brynner) defects with a list of high ranking double agents working in the West he’s willing to turn over to CIA head Davies (Henry Fonda). As word of the traitors trickles back to the countries concerned the suspects begin turning up dead by suicide and it looks as though Vlassov’s been telling the truth. … Read the rest
