Méphisto (1931)
2h 44m
Running Time
April 17, 1931Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Jean Gabin
Jacques Miral
René Navarre
Le professeur Bergmann
Janine Ronceray
Hilda Bergmann
Lucien Callamand
Fortuné Bidon
Viviane Elder
Monique Aubray
André Marnay
Richard
Henri Debain
Director
Georges Vinter
Director
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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.