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Louis Feuillade – Parisette (1921)

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Parisette (1921)

1 – Manoela
Quote:
In Portugal, Joaquim de Costabella, a deposed marquis, lives with his pious granddaughter Manoëla. When banker Alvarez comes to ask for Manoëla’s hand in exchange for renewing his drafts, the marquis throws him out. That same night, Alvarez’s house is burglarized and murdered…

2 – Le secret de Madame Stefan/Madame Stefan’s secret
Quote:
Parisette, a pretty dancer at the Paris Opera and the living image of Manoëla, lives with her uncle Cogolin, a waiter at the Stefan bank. Cogolin is a good friend of Madame Stefan, an ex-employee of the bank. He helps her hide a secret: a little girl she’s having raised by a wet nurse.

3 – L’affaire de Neuilly/The Neuilly affair
Quote:
Binoclard, dressed in Cogolin’s uniform, breaks into the home of a wealthy woman in Neuilly. Cogolin and Madame Stefan visit little Lulu. In the evening, the two crooks celebrate their crime, while Parisette, invited to dance at the Stefans’, meets the Marquis de Costabella, troubled by her resemblance to the deceased Manoëla…

4 – L’enquête/The investigation
Quote:
Back home, Cogolin tells Parisette who his father was. Binoclard, who has come to rest Cogolin’s suit, overhears everything and steals the letters proving Parisette’s parentage. The next day, the police visit the Stefans: a button from a recipe boy’s jacket has been found next to the body of a Neuilly pensioner…

5 – La piste/The trail
Quote:
The police go through Cogolin’s belongings and find evidence of his guilt. Parisette is distraught. On the banks of the Marne, Lapusse and Binoclard are having a drunken feast. Lapusse, taking advantage of his clerk’s inebriated state, pushes him into the water. The police tell Stefan the results of their investigation…

6 – Grand-père/Grandpa
Quote:
At the police station, the police question Parisette. The Marquis, warned by Stefan, picks her up and takes her to his home. Cogolin, camouflaged under a bandage and penniless, wanders around Marseille. He rescues a Portuguese loan shark named Alvarez. Alvarez offers him hospitality, only to discover Cogolin’s identity in the newspaper…

7 – Le faux révérend/The false reverend
Quote:
Cogolin, disguised as a priest, is now living with Alvarez in Nice. Alvarez, learning that the Marquis de Costabella is also on the Côte d’Azur, pays him a visit. But he is thrown out. He then asks Cogolin to break into the Marquis’s home as a “clergyman”…

8 – Family House
Quote:
Cogolin, disguised as a woman, takes refuge in a boarding house. There, he is surprised to see Lapusse, the owner’s new partner. He also meets Mélanie Parent, to whom he confides. She decides to help him. Their suspicions fall on Lapusse, who has spoken to the young woman about “family jewels”. They set a trap for him…

9 – L’impasse/The dead end
Quote:
Cogolin catches up with Lapusse and is about to take him to the police station. But Lapusse reminds him that Madame Stefan’s secret will then be revealed. Cogolin throws him off a bridge onto the rocks. Stefan, who has seen everything, takes Cogolin to a café. But Cogolin is arrested by the police…

10 – Le triomphe de Cogolin/Cogolin’s triumph
Quote:
Stefan confesses to Parisette that he has never loved his wife and wants a divorce. Madame Stefan has heard it all. Lapusse, at death’s door, signs his confession to the police, while Mélanie, little Lulu, Juliette, Parisette and the Marquis meet at the police station to tell the truth…

11 – La fortune de Joaquim/Joaquim’s fortune
Quote:
While Alvarez reveals to Cogolin and Stefan the mystery surrounding the Marquis’s fortune, the latter leaves on a mysterious trip to Portugal with Candido. Parisette discovers a strange card written by Manoëla just before her death. Intrigued, she asks Maria about her grandfather…

12 – Le secret des Costabella/The Costabella secret
Quote:
The Marquis brings back crates of gold from Lisbon by boat, unbeknownst to customs officials. He arrives in Nice to a frosty reception, with everyone believing him guilty. Discovering Alvarez’s presence, Joaquim demands explanations. He is then forced to tell where his fortune comes from…

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:English

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Louis Feuillade – Les vampires (1915)

admin — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 04:43:47 +0000

François Massarelli (google translate) wrote:
Philippe Guérande (Edouard Mathé), reporter for the “Mondial”, fights a merciless fight against the band of criminals Les Vampires. He is helped in this by his friend Oscar-Cloud Mazamette (Marcel Levesque), a former member of the gang whom he persuaded to follow the right path and who is very devoted to him. He spares no effort to counter the actions of the Great Vampire, the leader of the gang (Jean Aymé), Irma Vep (Musidora), the muse of criminals, or even Satanas (Louis Leubas), a dangerous manipulator of explosives, and Vénénos (Frédérick Moriss), the “master of poisons”…

François Massarelli (google translate) wrote:
Les Vampires is not the first French serial: Victorin-Hyppolite Jasset had made, for the Eclair company, “episode films”, as they said then, devoted to the adventures of Nick Carter (1908). With the Zigomar series (1912), he had taken his experimentation a little further by focusing not on a vigilante but on a band of criminals. The heroine of Protéa (1913) was a woman, Josette Andriot embodied a detective gifted in disguise. It is very likely that the start of the first film adapted from Fantômas was made in 1913 under the conscious influence of Jasset, but within the more conservative and respectable framework of Gaumont: any highlighting of crimes or criminals was excluded… After the success of Les Fantômas, and the five films made in 1913 and 1914 (for which the start of sequels had been abandoned because of the war), Les Vampires this time represents a conscious and vaguely opportunistic attempt to capitalize on the success of the serial. In particular at this time, the noble Gaumont tried to compete with the plebeian Pathé which then distributed American soap operas (The Perils of Pauline distributed in France after the success of the Fantômas films). But to go further, the baroque side of Jasset’s films, the depiction of an extended band of criminals united in crime, with their hierarchy and their taste for arms, the most diverse techniques on the one hand and the will to give an important role to a woman (as had been done in Protea) on the other hand certainly played a role in the conception of the Vampires.

Episode 1. La tete coupee (13 nov. 1915).mkv

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Language(s):French titles
Subtitles:English

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Louis Feuillade – Fantômas – À l’ombre de la guillotine AKA Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913)

admin — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:23:00 +0000

Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.

+Commentary by film historian David Kalat

4.84GB | 58m 26s | 960×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/14BCCA19189DF44/Fantomas-A.l’ombre.de.la.guillotine.1913.720p.BluRay.AC3.x264-HaB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Louis Feuillade – Le gendarme est sans culotte (1914)

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:11:00 +0000

IMDB wrote:
Le Gendarme est sans Culotte (or, “The Policeman is Without Trousers”) concerns a dim-witted cop named Foezel, who is played by Marcel Lévesque, best remembered as Mazamette in the great crime serial Les Vampires. Lévesque, whose comic relief character practically stole the show in that series, also starred in his own short comedies. To my way of thinking he suggests a Gallic version of Jimmy Finlayson, Laurel & Hardy’s familiar nemesis, not only in appearance but in his vigorous, over the top performance style. […]

The story begins as Foezel finishes his breakfast, bids a fond farewell to his loving wife and mother, and sets forth to walk his beat, blissfully unaware that he is embarking on a monumentally lousy day. Meanwhile, a group of filmmakers have arrived in town and are preparing to film a scene. Several police uniforms are required, but they find that they need one more pair of trousers. They observe as Foezel strolls past, and, correctly assessing him as a likely sucker, select an attractive young actress from their troupe to vamp him. She lures him into a bar located in the hotel where the troupe is staying, and the fun is on! For everyone except Foezel, that is.

488MB | 19m 22s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/050F8E1D6C6E5AF/Le.gendarme.est.sans.culotte.1914.WEB.1080p.mkv
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Language:Dutch intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Louis Feuillade – Le pain quotidien AKA Our Daily Bread (1910)

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:06:17 +0000

A dour ten minutes during which a young woman takes the job a family man. Mostly of interest as a “glimpse of views on women’s emancipation and employment at a time when they were invading the office world as stenographers and typists” (Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi).

20MB | 10m 40s | 640×360 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/544A1C4BB8E2B7A/Le.pain.quotidien.1910.WEB.360p.mkv
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Language(s):Dutch intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Louis Feuillade – La maison des lions AKA House of Lions (1912)

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:12:11 +0000

After he is fired, a real stinker of a servant lets loose his ex-employer’s lions.
Drama ensues and, needless to say, her soirée is ruined.

111MB | 13m 10s | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D839BCDFC566429/La.maison.des.lions.1912.WEB.720p.mkv
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Language:Dutch intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Louis Feuillade – Tih Minh (1918)

admin — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 07:50:00 +0000

Jacques d’Athys returns from an expedition to Indochina where he picks up a book that contains the whereabouts of secret treasures and sensitive government intelligence. This makes him the target of foreign spies, including a Marquise of Latin origin, a Hindu hypnotist and an evil German doctor.

7.15GB | 6h 14m | 768×576 | mkv

Language:Silent
Subtitles:French Intertitles, English

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