Méphisto

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin

Jacques Miral

René Navarre
René Navarre

le professeur Bergmann

Janine Ronceray
Janine Ronceray

Hilda Bergmann

Viviane Elder
Viviane Elder

Monique Aubray

Lucien Callamand
Lucien Callamand

Fortuné Bidon

André Marnay
André Marnay

Richard

Hélène Terpsé
Hélène Terpsé

la femme X

Alexandre Mihalesco
Alexandre Mihalesco

Nostradamus

Mathilde Alberti
Mathilde Alberti

Mme Palmarède

France Dhélia
France Dhélia

Fanoche

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    On 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...

  • Release Date

    1931-04-17

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    6.5

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