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The final attractive episode of Feuillade's series on Fantômas. This hero on the edge between crime and justice will never again be that strange colorful kitsch of the 1960s, and never again will he have the face of Jean Marais, but only René Navarre. While Juve got himself into a stalemate and was forced to help Fantômas escape from Belgium, he put all his previous efforts at risk. And it would not have been like Fantômas, this master of disguise and intrigue, to give his eternal shadow even this time. From a technical point of view, the way they handled a lost piece of film and the soundtrack in Gaumont in 1998 is quite fascinating. While a photo and intertitles were sufficient to replace the lost scene, by the third episode the background music had become so unbearable that it had to be removed. So I substituted somewhat more brisk motifs from my own sources, and it was immediately possible to maintain the original enthusiasm for this wonderful crime substance written by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Fantômas was a contemporary of the somewhat less sadistic Arsène Lupin, and he lived to see his 32 classic adventures from 1911 to 1913. After Souvestre's death, Allain wrote more modern adventures, which he devoted himself to between 1925 and 1963. It was then that the modern legacy of Fantômas was written. So let's leave the grey mask asleep and revive the master of disguise.
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