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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

FANTOMAS VS. SCOTLAND YARD 1967 (KINO)

This is the third and final film in the 1960's trilogy of French comedy/spy films about Fantomas.

Jean Marais stars as Fantomas, the master criminal who is up to no good as usual. In this outing he is attemting to tax the very, very wealthy in Scotland a "living" tax.

This means they have to pay him a huge amount just to stay alive. Commissaire Juve (Louis de Funes) is called into the cae once again and ends up falling short on his investigation.

A reporter played by Robert Dalban and his very sexy girlfriend Helene (Mylene Demongeot) attempt to capture Fantomas, but they to fail. I found that there was way too much comedy in this film to make it an effective spy thriller or action movie.

I guess I just don't understand French filmmaking. Anyway the color photography is beautiful and so in the gorgeous Demongeot, who makes all of these films just abit more watchable.

I don't think is the right one to start off the series with. I found it a bit disappointing and hope the others will be a bit better. I found this to be only for very die hard spy movie fans.

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