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Director: Georges Franju
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From Time Out Film Guide
Franju's superbly elegant and enjoyable tribute to the adventure fanatasies of Louis Feuillade sees the eponymous righter-of-wrongs (Pollack) abduct a wicked banker in order to prevent villainess Diana (Bergé, glorious in black cat suit) laying her hands on a fortune the banker's daughter (Scob) is due to inherit. Cue for a magical clash between good and evil, with the director revelling in poetic symbolism (the opening masked ball finds our hero, with forbidding bird mask, creating a dove out of thin air), black-and-white photography that thrills with its evocation of a lost, more innocent era, and surreal set pieces.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Channing Pollack, Edith Scob, Francine Bergé, Jacques Jouanneau, Sylva Koscina, Michel Vitold full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 95 mins
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