Fantômas se déchaîne

Fantômas se déchaîne
French film poster
Directed byAndré Hunebelle
Haroun Tazieff
Written byPierre Souvestre (novels)
Marcel Allain (novels)
Jean Halain (adaptation)
Pierre Foucaud (adaptation)
Produced byPaul Cadéac
Alain Poiré
StarringJean Marais
Louis de Funès
Mylène Demongeot
CinematographyRaymond Lemoigne
Edited byJean Feyte
Music byMichel Magne
Production
company
Distributed byGaumont Distribution
Release date
  • 8 December 1965 (1965-12-08)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
LanguageFrench
Box office$31.6 million

Fantômas se déchaîne (French pronunciation: [fɑ̃tomas deʃɛn], "Fantomas Unleashed") is a 1965 film starring Jean Marais as the arch villain Fantômas opposite Louis de Funès as the earnest but outclassed commissaire Juve and the journalist Fandor, also played by Marais. It was France's answer, with the Fantômas trilogy starting in 1964, to the James Bond phenomenon that swept the world at around the same time. It is the second in the trilogy of Fantômas films, that became extremely successful in Europe and Soviet Union and found success even in the United States and Japan. In this film Jean Marais also plays professor Lefebvre.