As artistic director of the Gaumont film company, Louis Feuillade was keen to capitalise
on the success of the Fantômas series of novels, written by Pierre Souvestre et
Marcel Allain... [More...]
The second instalment in Louis Feuillade’s five-part Fantômas serial sees
a substantial shift towards the more familiar action thriller... [More...]
Le Mort qui tue is the third, and in some ways the most sophisticated, of the five
Fantômas films by Louis Feuillade. Not only is it an exemplary silent film
for its time... [More...]
The plot thickens with this, the fourth instalment in Feuillade’s epic Fantômas
cycle, based on the popular novels of Souvestre et Allain... [More...]
After the huge success of the Fantômas
serial between 1913 and 1914, Gaumont were more than eager to produce another
serial, mainly to fend off competition from the rival French film company Pathé
(which... [More...]
