Les Vampires, 4: 'Le Spectre'
Interiors = a Paris estate agent's office; a Paris apartment; a Paris bank; a railway carriage.
Exteriors: an apartment building, a bank, the Gaumont Palace, all in Paris; a railway station and railway lines; suburban level crossings; a view of the viaduct at Nogent-sur-Marne:
1/ an apartment rented by Moreno from Treps, i.e. Le Grand Vampire:
2/ the Renoux-Duval bank:
Moreno, disguised as Métadier, leaves the bank and his car is pursued by Le Grand Vampire. The chase starts and finishes in the same street, though we are supposed to think the manhole down which Moreno disappears is in a different street.
This is 3 Rue du Général Langlois, 16e, the same address used for Guérande's home.
This is 3 Rue du Général Langlois, 16e, the same address used for Guérande's home.
3/ Le Gaumont Palace, 1 Rue Caulaincourt, 18e:
4 + 5/ railways and level crossings:
An indeterminate railway staion, supposed to be in Paris but the absence of platform suggests not; a view from a bridge of tracks near a canal or river; an indeterminate stretch of track; another view from a bridge over a junction of tracks.
Railway scenes in episodes 8 and 9 are filmed at Brunoy, south-east of Paris, and I think these views are also taken in that vicinity. The view from a bridge above left repeats the composition of a shot from Juve contre Fantômas (1913):
Railway scenes in episodes 8 and 9 are filmed at Brunoy, south-east of Paris, and I think these views are also taken in that vicinity. The view from a bridge above left repeats the composition of a shot from Juve contre Fantômas (1913):
Moreno finds Métadier's body near one suburban level crossing and carries it to his associates waiting near another suburban level crossing. I have seen many postcards of level crossings in the Paris region but have not yet found a match to either of these.
6/ the viaduct at Nogent-sur-Marne:
None of the action of Les Vampires is set or filmed at Nogent.
Click below for 'L'Evasion du mort', episode 5 of Les Vampires: