A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgently needed.
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
Léonce’s wife receives a tiny chihuahua as a gift and immediately dotes on it, to the point of putting it on the table at meals. The hero is disgusted and tries increasingly devious and extreme ways of getting rid of the little pest - David Bordwell
This serials played by Léon Lorin and various feminine actors, here Davrières, is full of comic elegance, parisianism of the Grands Boulevards and a real taste for fine shots. Appreciate the crossing of the Champ de Mars.
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This one is about Hypocrisy
Léonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be enough of a comfort to him as she gets married?
