Doctor Justice (1975)
"Docteur Justice" (original title)

Director:

Christian-Jaque

Writers:

Christian-Jaque, Raphael Marcello (comic),

Stars:

John Phillip Law, Gert Fröbe, Nathalie Delon

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
John Phillip Law	...	Dr. Benjamin Justice
Gert Fröbe	...	Max Orwall / Georges Orwall (as Gert Froebe)
Nathalie Delon	...	Karine
Roger Paschy	...	Wang
Henri Marteau	...	Le commandant de l'Azay-le-rideau'
Gilles Béhat	...	Steve
Lionel Vitrant	...	Boris
Jean Lanier	...	Le juge
Hugo Blanco	...	Éric Sachs (as Ugo Blanco)
Eduardo Fajardo	...	Dr. Alverio
Paul Naschy	...	Ralph (as Paul Naschi)
Manuel Pereiro	...	Le cuisinier
José Canalejas	...	Khalid
Roland Mahauden	...	Carlo
Jean-Marie Degèsves	...	Le reporter

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

oil tanker | twins | martial arts | based on comic book | based on comic | 

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Genres:

Action

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Details

Country:

France Spain

Language:

French

Release Date:

17 December 1975 (France)

Also Known As:

Doctor Justice

Filming Locations:

Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 34,127,792 (Spain) (3 March 2000)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Productions Belles Rives, Talía Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

The action movie is based on the title character, a World Health Organisation (WHO) doctor and martial arts expert who fights bad guys, created in 1970 by scriptwriter Jean Ollivier and artist Carlo Marcello for "Pif Gadget", a weekly kids' comic book magazine in France.

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Connections

Featured in Les kidnappeurs (1998)

User Reviews

Justice and Law.

After portraying Diabolik ,a villain from a comic strip in the sixties,John Philip Law has a change of heart:here he is cast as Docteur Justice,another hero from a French comic strip,but on the right side of the law,no pun intended .This comic strip was very average,and is virtually forgotten today.So is the movie.

This is veteran Christian-Jaque's penultimate movie,but the director was artistically dead for years,to be precise after his underrated "le repas des fauves" (1963).All his subsequent works are often sub -Janes Bond ,the likes of "Le Saint prend l'affût" (1966,long before Val Kilmer)or "deux billets pour Mexico" (1968),or dismal Brigitte Bardot's vehicle "les pétroleuses" (1971)or a remake of "that lady Hamilton" (1968).

"Docteur Justice" is actually given some kind of a poor man's James Bond treatment:Gert "Goldfinger" Froebe ,-whose acting verges on tongue-in-cheek -,putting to sleep the whole crew of a tanker to grab the black gold is some kind of "attack of Fort Knox" in miniature.The plot is banal,the pictures nice and the whole thing harmless.