方托马斯

After the tremendous popular success of theFant?mas novels, both of the major Frenchfilm studios — Pathé and Gaumont —vied for the rights to produce films basedon the series. Gaumont won, and fromApril 1913 to May 1914 Louis Feuilladedirected five Fant?mas films which criticDavid Thomson has described as quot;the firstgreat movie experience.quot;