History Film / Fantomas

In the third film, ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard'' (''Fantômas contre Scotland Yard''), Fantômas kidnaps several billionaires, threatening to kill them if they don't pay his "tax on the right to live." Juve and Fandor step up to protect one of these billionaires, the UsefulNotes/{{Scot|land}}tish Lord Mac Rashley, and use him as bait to try catching Fantômas.

In the third film, ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard'' (''Fantômas contre Scotland Yard''), Fantômas ransoms several billionaires, threatening to kill them if they don't oblige to his "tax on the right to live". Juve and Fandor step up to protect one of these billionaires, the UsefulNotes/{{Scot|land}}tish Lord Mac Rashley, and use him as bait to try catching Fantômas.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the end, when Juve and Fandor (in a plane) are chasing Fantômas (in his FlyingCar) in the air, Juve is so impatient to catch up with Fantômas that he opens the plane's door (somehow thinking the HypnoRay gun would work better if pointed from outside). Although Fandor advises him to put a parachute on, he [[WrongParachuteGag puts a mere bag on his back]], sits outside, forgets to hang on and loses his balance, dropping the hypno ray gun and then falling. The only thing a Fandor can do next is to plunge and save Juve's life with his own parachute, abandoning the pursuit of Fantômas.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the end, when Juve and Fandor (in a plane) are chasing Fantômas (in his FlyingCar) in the air, Juve is so impatient to catch up with Fantômas that he opens the plane's door (somehow thinking the HypnoRay gun would work better if pointed from outside). Although Fandor advises him to put a parachute on, he [[WrongParachuteGag puts a mere bag on his back]], sits outside and loses his balance, dropping the hypno ray gun and then falling. The only thing a parachute-equipped Fandor can do next is to plunge and save Juve's life, abandoning the pursuit of Fantômas.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Commissioner Juve's coat.

''Fantômas'' is a 1964 French action/comedy film [[AdaptationDecay rather loosely based]] off the [[Literature/{{Fantomas}} novels of the same name]]. The characters were InNameOnly compared to the novels, the film had more in common with the SpyFiction craze of TheSixties than anything else, and it turned the title character (a criminal and anarchist in the books) into a [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]]-esque [[DiabolicalMastermind supervillain]]. Two sequels were made, ''Fantômas Unleashed'' in 1965 and ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard'' in 1967.

''Fantômas'' is a 1964 French action/comedy film [[AdaptationDecay rather loosely based]] off the [[Literature/{{Fantomas}} novels of the same name]]. The characters had InNameOnly compared to the novels, the film had more in common with the SpyFiction craze of TheSixties than anything else, and it turned the title character (a criminal and anarchist in the books) into a [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]]-esque [[DiabolicalMastermind supervillain]]. Two sequels were made, ''Fantômas Unleashed'' in 1965 and ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard'' in 1967.

The first film sees Fantômas (played by Creator/JeanMarais and voiced by Raymond Pellegrin) being very angry at Fandor ([[ActingForTwo also played]] by Jean Marais), a UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}ian journalist who has written a fictional (and ridiculous) interview of him. After bombing Fandor's editorial offices, he kidnaps Fandor, threatens to kill him, iron-brands him, and goes about ruining the journalist's reputation by committing a sensational theft wearing a Fandor mask. He also kidnaps Fandor's fiancée Hélène (Creator/MyleneDemongeot). Hot on the trail is buffoonish police commissioner Juve (Creator/LouisDeFunes), so Fantômas starts committing robberies with a mask imitating Juve's face to get rid of him.

In the second film, ''Fantômas Unleashed'' (''Fantômas se déchaîne''), Fantômas [[KidnappedScientist kidnaps several scientists]] to conceive devices for his nefarious plans, and Fandor, Hélène and Juve go after him in Southern UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}.

In the second film, ''Fantômas Unleashed'' (''Fantômas se déchaîne''), Fantômas [[KidnappedScientist kidnaps several scientists]] to conceive devices for his nefarious plans, and Fandor, Hélène and Juve go after him in UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}.

''Fantômas'' is a 1964 French action/comedy film [[AdaptationDecay rather loosely based]] off the [[Literature/{{Fantomas}} novels of the same name]]. The characters are InNameOnly compared to the novels, and it turned the title character (a criminal and anarchist in the books) into a [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]]-esque [[DiabolicalMastermind supervillain]]. Two sequels were made, ''Fantômas Unleashed'' in 1965 and ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard'' in 1967.

* OminousPipeOrgan: Fantômas has a fully automatic organ in his lair in the first movie. As Fandor [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up from his kidnapping]] in the lair, it starts to play an ominous piece to announce Fantômas' arrival. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcuw99UGFzA Fantômas also plays it manually]] at one point.

* BigEntrance: When Fandor wakes up in the [[SupervillainLair lair]] of Fantômas, Fantômas makes his entrance by arriving ominously through a secret elevator door with the [[OminousPipeOrgan pipe organ]] blaring a grandiose and ominous tune.

''Fantômas'' is a 1964 French action/comedy film [[AdaptationDecay rather loosely based]] off the [[Literature/{{Fantomas}} novels of the same name]]. The characters are InNameOnly compared to the novels, and it turned the title character (a criminal and anarchist in the books) into a [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]]-esque [[DiabolicalMastermind supervillain]] and spawned two sequels, ''Fantômas Unleashed'' in 1965 and ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard'' in 1967.

''Fantômas'' is a 1964 French action/comedy film [[AdaptationDecay rather loosely based]] off the [[Literature/{{Fantomas}} novels of the same name]]. It turned the title character (a criminal and anarchist in the books) into a [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]]-esque [[DiabolicalMastermind supervillain]] and spawned two sequels, ''Fantômas Unleashed'' in 1965 and ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard'' in 1967.