Louis Feuillade – Les vampires (1915)

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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 – Le gendarme est sans culotte (1914)

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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
https://nitro.download/view/6AACDBDDE416C87/Le.gendarme.est.sans.culotte.1914.WEB-EN.srt
or
https://fikper.com/rKLn3NjoFx/Le.gendarme.est.sans.culotte.1914.WEB.1080p.mkv
https://fikper.com/bhSFxIHP1V/Le.gendarme.est.sans.culotte.1914.WEB-EN.srt

Language:Dutch intertitles
Subtitles:English

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