| 1 | !!1960s movies: |
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| 3 | * ActingForTwo: |
| 4 | ** Creator/JeanMarais played both Fandor and Fantômas. In ''Fantômas Unleashed'' he's Acting for Three since he's also Professor Lefèvre (whom ''both'' Fantômas and Fandor disguise as). |
| 5 | ** Creator/LouisDeFunes also played both Commissioner Juve and Fantômas disguised as Juve (with just enough makeup to have him look not too much like Juve). |
| 6 | * CaliforniaDoubling: The "Scottish" castle in ''Fantômas Against Scotland Yard''? It's the castle of Roquetaillade, in Mazères, near Bordeaux, in France. |
| 7 | * FakeNationality: French actor Jean-Roger Caussimon as the Scottish Lord [=MacRashley=] in the third film. |
| 8 | * FollowTheLeader: Besides the ''Film/OSS117'' film series (also produced by Creator/{{Gaumont}}, and some of them were also directed by André Hunebelle), these ''Fantômas'' films were made with much SpyFiction tropes to emulate the growing ''Film/JamesBond'' series starring Creator/SeanConnery at the time. And they were [[DuelingWorks strong box office adversaries]] to the ''Bond'' series in France as a result. |
| 9 | * ProductionPosse: Three of many other films directed directed by André Hunebelle starring Jean Marais, including ''Film/{{Le Bossu|1959}}'', ''Film/LeCapitan'' and ''Film/TheMiracleOfTheWolves''. |
| 10 | * StuntDouble: For the UsefulNotes/{{skydiving}} scene where Fandor plunges to save Juve's life at the end of ''Fantômas Unleashed'', Jean Marais (who usually required NoStuntDouble) accepted to let professional skydiver Jean-Jacques Dubourg handle it for the real freefall footage. The sequence was quite groundbreaking for its time, 14 years before a similar one in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''. |
| 11 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: A fourth movie tentatively titled ''Fantômas in Moscow'' was talked about, possibly due to the films' popularity in the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] at the time. It never got off the ground, mainly because Jean Marais had enough of being overshadowed by the booming popularity of Creator/LouisDeFunes and [[MoneyDearBoy demanded twice the salary amount]] he got for each previous film. |
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| 13 | !!In general: |
| 14 | * CanonWelding: Fantômas is the canonical grandfather of the supervillain Phantom Limb on ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', thanks to being a public domain character. (It is unknown if Helene or Fandor is his parent.) |
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