Fantômas is a 1946 French crime film directed by Jean Sacha and starring Marcel Herrand, Simone Signoret and Alexandre Rignault.
[1] The film features the fictional master criminal Fantômas, created in 1911 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre.
[2] Fantômas, once thought dead, has just prevented the marriage of his daughter Hélène with the journalist Fandor, killing the mayor who was to unite them.
Meanwhile, Lady Bentham, anxious to prevent Fantômas from committing new crimes, telephones to Juve the whereabouts of the criminal.
Fantômas destroys his secret laboratory before disappearing, then continues to assassinate passersby at random with his death ray.