Méphisto

Méphisto

164 mins | Drama | April 17, 1931

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...

Méphisto

164 mins | Drama | April 17, 1931

Méphisto
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...
Producers Les Films Osso
Original title Méphisto
Directors Georges Vinter, Henri Debain
Writers Arthur Bernède

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

Hélène Terpsé

as la femme X

Alexandre Mihalesco

as Nostradamus

Mathilde Alberti

as Mme Palmarède

France Dhélia

as Fanoche

Gil Roland

as Robert d'Arbel

Jacques Maury

as Willy Keanton

Paul Clerget

as Cornelius

Louis Zellas

as Le « Dogue de Bordeaux »

Fernand Godeau

as Édouard

Jean Marié de L'Isle

as Le juge d'instruction