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Judex
Judex (real name Jacques de Trémeuse) is a fictional French vigilante hero created by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède for the 1916 silent film '' Judex''. Judex (whose name is Latin for "judge") is a mysterious avenger who dresses in black and wears a slouch hat and cloak. He was possibly conceived as a heroic version of the criminal character Fantômas. (Feuillade had directed the popular 1913 serial ''Fantômas''.) The character has since appeared in other films, in novels, on stage and in comic books. Judex appears to have been an inspiration for the American pulp hero The Shadow, who was himself an inspiration for Batman.Xavier Fournier, ''Super-héros : une histoire française'', Huginn Muninn, 2014, p. 69-73 Creation Louis Feuillade had already made two earlier serials, ''Fantômas'' (1913) and '' Les Vampires'' (1915), which were popular with audiences, but drew criticism for glorifying criminals. This may have led Feuillade to want to do a heroic serial next. On M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judex (1963 Film)
''Judex'' is a 1963 French-language crime film remake of the 1916 French film serial of the same name concerning the adventures of pulp hero Judex. Directed by French filmmaker Georges Franju, the film stars Channing Pollock as Judex/Vallieres, Édith Scob as Jacqueline and Francine Bergé as Diana. Plot Banker Favraux has attained vast wealth through swindles and blackmail. In his mansion, Favraux receives a threatening note signed only "Judex", that demands he return swindled money to the victims. Concerned with his safety, Favraux hires private detective Cocantin to keep a lookout at a party where he plans to announce the engagement of his widowed daughter, Jacqueline. Jacqueline has a small daughter, Alice. Unknown to the family, Alice's governess Marie Verdier is actually Diana Monti, a cat burglar and cutthroat. Favraux is infatuated with Diana, but she refuses to be his mistress and demands that they marry. He agrees to marry her and will make the announcement at Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judex (1916 Film)
''Judex'' is a 1916 silent film, silent France, French film Serial (film), serial concerning the adventures of Judex, who is a pulp hero predating The Shadow, created by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède. Plot The story is complex and is told in 12 chapters. The basic plot involves a corrupt banker named Favraux, who is the target of Judex's revenge. It is eventually revealed that Judex's real identity is Jacques de Trémeuse, a man trying to avenge his family ruined by Favraux. Complicating matters is Favraux's beautiful and innocent daughter Jacqueline, with whom the avenger has fallen in love. A final element comes in the form of Diana Monti and her criminal gang who are working at cross purposes with Judex. Cast * René Cresté - Jacques de Tremeuse a.k.a. Judex * Musidora - Diana Monti aka Marie Verdier * René Poyen - Le môme Réglisse * Édouard Mathé - Roger de Tremeuse * Gaston Michel - Pierre Kerjean * Yvonne Dario - Comtesse de Tremeuse * Yvette Andréyor - Jacquel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cresté
René Auguste Cresté (5 December 1881 – 30 November 1922) was a French stage and film actor and director of the silent film era. Cresté is possibly best recalled as Judex, the title character in the Louis Feuillade-directed crime-adventure serial ''Judex'', which ran in twelve installments in theaters from 1917 until 1918. Early life and career René Auguste Cresté was born in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. He began his acting career on the stages of Paris in distinguished theatrical roles in plays such as ''Claudine à Paris'' (''Claudine in Paris''), written by and performed alongside Colette, ''Ruy Blas'' by Victor Hugo and ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' by Eugene Scribe. ''Judex'' René Cresté was signed to a contract to the Gaumont Film Company in 1908. Little is known of his first film appearances as they are considered lost. In 1912 he began appearing in a series of mystery shorts directed by Léonce Perret. He then began appearing in a number of films directed by Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judex (1934 Film)
''Judex'' is a 1934 French crime film directed by Maurice Champreux and starring René Ferté, Louise Lagrange and Paule Andral. It features the hero Judex.Hardy p.188 Plot Cast * René Ferté as Judex * Louise Lagrange as Jacqueline * Paule Andral as Madame de Trémeuse * Marcel Vallée as Cocantin * Alexandre Mihalesco as Le banquier Favraux * Jean Lefebvre as Roger de Trémeuse * René Navarre as Kerjean * Blanche Bernis as Diana Monti * Jean Borelli as Le petit Jean * Nino Constantini as Moralès * Madeleine Guitty as La bonne de Cocantin * Raymond Blot * Yvette Dantin * Charles Lemontier * Aya Valmita * Le Petit Patachou as Le môme Réglisse References Bibliography * Hardy, Phil. ''The BFI Companion to Crime''. A&C Black, 1997. External links * {{IMDb title, 0025334 1934 films French crime films 1934 crime films 1930s French films Films directed by Maurice Champreux Films based on works by Arthur Bernède French black-and-white films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musidora
Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is best known for her acting in silent films, and rose to public attention for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials ''Les Vampires'' as Irma Vep and in ''Judex'' as Marie Verdier. Early life Born Jeanne Roques in Paris, France to music composer and theorist of socialism Jacques Roques and painter and feminist Adèle Clémence Porchez, Musidora began her career in the arts at an early age, writing her first novel at the age of fifteen and acting on the stage with the likes of Colette, one of her lifelong friends. During the very early years of French cinema Musidora began a professional collaboration with the highly successful French film director Louis Feuillade. She made her film debut in ''Les miseres de l'aiguille'', directed by Raphael Clamour, in January 1914. The film highlights the problems of the urban women in the French w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Mathé
Édouard Mathé (; 1886–1934) was a French silent film actor. He starred in some 51 films between 1914 and 1924. Mathe appeared ''Barabbas'' in 1920. He regularly appeared in films directed by Louis Feuillade, such as the 1915 '' Les Vampires'' serial, the 1916 '' Judex'' serial, '' Tih Minh'' in 1918 and '' Parisette'' in 1921. He died in Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ... in 1934. Selected filmography * '' The Two Girls'' (1921) * '' The Two Boys'' (1924) External links * 1886 births 1934 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actors 20th-century French male actors {{france-film-actor-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Jouanneau
Jacques Jouanneau (3 October 1926 – 19 July 2011) was a French actor. He was born in Angers, France. Filmography *1953: '' Capitaine Pantoufle'' - Le barman du Goéland (uncredited) *1954: '' Les Intrigantes'' - Le Reporter (uncredited) *1954: ''Ah! Les belles bacchantes'' - Joseph Delmar, le régisseur aux Folies-Méricourt *1954: '' One Step to Eternity'' - Le flic *1955: '' French Canacan'' - Bidon *1955: '' Madonna of the Sleeping Cars'' - Henri - le chauffeur *1955: ''Les Grandes manœuvres'' - L'ordonnance de Félix *1956: '' The Road to Paradise'' - Robert *1956: '' Elena et les hommes'' - Eugène Martin-Michaud *1956: '' En effeuillant la marguerite'' - Edouard, friend of Daniel *1956: '' Paris, Palace Hôtel'' - Le laquais de l'entrée *1957: '' Le Colonel est de la revue'' - Van Molpen *1957: ''Let's Be Daring, Madame'' - Dédé la Matraque *1957: '' Comme un cheveu sur la soupe'' - Amédée *1957: '' Love Is at Stake'' - Damiano *1958: '' (Le Tombeur)'' - Edouard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Vallée
Marcel Vallée (15 January 1880, in Paris – 31 October 1957, in Fontaine-le-Port) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. He appeared in some American films. Selected filmography * '' My Aunt from Honfleur'' (1923) * '' The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (1930) * '' Paris by Night'' (1930) * '' The Girl and the Boy'' (1931) * '' Alone'' (1931) * '' The Night at the Hotel'' (1932) * ''Côte d'Azur'' (1932) * '' Nights in Port Said'' (1932) * '' A Star Disappears'' (1932) * '' The Champion Cook'' (1932) * '' Topaze'' (1933) * '' The Little King'' (1933) * ''Judex'' (1934) * '' Song of Farewell'' (1934) * ''Divine'' (1935) * '' Prince of the Six Days'' (1936) * '' Wolves Between Them'' (1936) * '' Miarka'' (1937) * ''Cinderella'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * '' Beautiful Star'' (1938) * '' My Priest Among the Rich'' (1938) * '' Prince of My Heart'' (1938) * '' Paid Holidays'' (1938) * '' Prince Bouboule'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Lévesque
Marcel Lévesque (6 December 1877 – 16 February 1962) was a French film actor. Born Joseph Marcel Lévesque in Paris, he died in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames. Selected filmography * ''Les Vampires'' (1915) * ''Judex'' (1916) * ''La dama de Chez Maxim's'' (1923) * '' Take Care of Amelia'' (1925) * '' Floretta and Patapon'' (1927) * ''All That's Not Worth Love'' (1931) * ''The Heir of the Bal Tabarin'' (1933) * '' The Coquelet Affair'' (1935) * '' Le Crime de Monsieur Lange'' (1936) * ''Let's Make a Dream The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed. It is usually found only in the present tense, second person. They are sometimes called ' ...'' (1936) * '' La Nuit fantastique'' (1942) * '' Summer Light'' (1943) * '' Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * '' Adhémar'' (1951) External links * 1877 births 1962 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édith Scob
Édith Scob (21 October 1937 – 26 June 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in '' Eyes Without a Face'' (1960). Early life and family Scob was born Édith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine, the granddaughter of a Russian Army general and White Russian émigré. Her father was an architect and her mother a journalist. Her elder brother, Michel Scob (1935–1995), was a French cycling champion and Olympian. At age 14, she underwent treatment for anorexia. Her love of literature inspired an interest in theatre. Scob was studying French at the Sorbonne and taking drama classes when she was cast in her first role. She and her husband, composer Georges Aperghis, have two sons, Alexander (born 1970) and Jerome (born 1972), both writers. Scob died in Paris on June 26th, 2019. No cause of death was given. Career Scob made her debut in theater in 1958 with the play ''Don Juan'', but she gained a high profile earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Andréyor
Yvette Andréyor (born Yvette Louise Pauline Royé, 6 August 1891 – 30 October 1962) was a French actress most popular in the era of silent film. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1962. Biography Yvette Louise Pauline Royé was born at the maternity hospital of Port-Royal in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on 6 August 1891 to Jean-Baptiste André Royé, an artist, and Marie-Louise Carcel. At six, she made her debut on the stage of the Théâtre de l'Odéon. She continued her artistic training at the conservatory where she won an award in 1913. Afterwards, she began performing at the Antoine theater and in Belgium. Yvette Royé changed her name to Yvette Andréyor and made her film debut in 1910. She starred in ''Le haleur'' (1911) alongside Léonce Perret, who also directed and wrote it, and in ''Le Bossu'' (1912). In December 1914, Andréyor performed on Broadway in the play ''The Union Eternal''. Louis Feuillade took notice of her and directed her i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinémathèque Française
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films. History From the first cinema screenings until 1930, several attempts to establish film archives were initiated in Europe, the US and Russia. As early as 1898, the photographer and cameraman Bolesław Matuszewski evoked the idea of a film archive. "It is a matter of giving this perhaps privileged source of history the same authority, the same official existence, the same access as to other archives already known". The " Archives of the Planet” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by French banker Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931. Military film archives were also created in France, Germany and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
