Méphisto

(1931)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1931

Runtime: 164 мин

Country: France

Director: Henri Debain, Georges Vinter

Cast: Жан Габен, René Navarre, Janine Ronceray, Viviane Elder, Lucien Callamand, André Marnay, Hélène Terpsé, Alexandre Mihalesco, Mathilde Alberti, France Dhélia

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...