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4 December 1963 (France) morePlot:
Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Haunting, sublime crime drama moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Channing Pollock | ... | Judex / Vallieres | |
| Francine Bergé | ... | Diana Monti / Marie Verdier | |
| Edith Scob | ... | Jacqueline Favraux | |
| Théo Sarapo | ... | Morales | |
| Sylva Koscina | ... | Daisy | |
| René Génin | ... | Pierre Kerjean | |
| Roger Fradet | ... | Leon | |
| André Méliès | ... | Doctor | |
| Philippe Mareuil | ... | Amaury de la Rochefontaine | |
| Luigi Cortese | ... | Pierrot | |
| Benjamin Boda | ... | Réglisse | |
| Jean-Jacques Rémy | |||
| Jean Degrave | ... | Notary | |
| Ketty France | ... | Jeanne-Marie Bontemps | |
| André Tomasi |
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104 minLanguage:
FrenchColor:
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MonoCertification:
Finland:K-16Filming Locations:
Musée Jacquemart André de Châalis, Fontaine Châalis, Oise, FranceFun Stuff
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Visa d'exploitation en France #27668 moreFAQ
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Franju's evocation of a lost innocent era of French silent cinema is a real gem, and a much neglected film. The film creates an air of gentle menace from the opening scenes featuring a bird-masked magician at a masked ball. We soon learn that he is, in fact, Judex, the legendary crime-fighter. He soon becomes engaged in a battle with a cat-suited female criminal. The plot itself is one-dimensional comic-strip stuff, as the above suggests, but what constantly impresses is the poetic set-pieces Franju sets up, particularly a burglary at a country house swathed in mists. The show is continually stolen by Francine Berge, as the criminal - she seems a not-too-distant relation of Diana Rigg in television's "The Avengers", at least in dress sense - and this highlights a slight problem. The hero, played by American magician Channing Pollock, is bland by comparison, as is Edith Scob's heroine-in-distress. It seems that the bad girls get all the fun! Overall, this is the type of film that doesn't get made any more, yet doesn't seem dated. Franju's more famous "Les Yeux Sans Visage" is, in terms of mood, very similar, as is Cocteau's breathtaking fairy tale, "La Belle Et La Bete". The sixties British horror, "The Haunting", also pulls the same trick of showing little by achieving everything through mood alone. Do try to see all of these if you get the chance.