Méphisto
Sign in to saveMéphisto is the title of a 1931 French film serial co-directed by Henri Debain and Georges Vinter, starring Jean Gabin and René Navarre. It was Gabin's first role in a long and illustrious career, as well as Viviane Elder's first role. The music was by Casimir Oberfeld with lyrics by Charles L. Pothier, sung by Jean Gabin.
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6.6On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...
Released: 1931-04-17164 minDir: Henri DebainDrama
Cast
- Jean Gabin as Jacques Miral
- René Navarre as le professeur Bergmann
- Janine Ronceray as Hilda Bergmann
- Viviane Elder as Monique Aubray
- Lucien Callamand as Fortuné Bidon
- André Marnay as Richard
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- Published
- 17 April 1931
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- Genre
- anthology film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Henri Debain
- Screenwriter
- Arthur Bernède
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Méphisto is the title of a 1931 French film serial co-directed by Henri Debain and Georges Vinter, starring Jean Gabin and René Navarre. It was Gabin's first role in a long and illustrious career, as well as Viviane Elder's first role. The music was by Casimir Oberfeld with lyrics by Charles L. Pothier, sung by Jean Gabin.
==Cast== Jean Gabin as Jacques Miral Rene Navarre as Prof. Bergmann Janine Ronceray as Hilda Bergmann Vivianne Elder as Monique Aubray Lucien Callamand as Fortune Bidon Andre Marnay as Richard Helene Cerpse as La Femme X Mathilde Alberti as Madame Palmarede Alexandre Mihalesco as Nostradamus Paul Clerget as Cornelius Fernand Godeau as Eduoard France Dhelia as Fanoche Milly Mathis as telegraph customer Jacques Maury as Willy Jean-Marie de L'isle as Le juge d'instruction Louis Zellas as Le dogue de Bordeaux Tony Dovellani as Le gamin de Ouezzane