Shadowman

Shadowman (1974)

Nuits rouges

Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade.

Date of release
1974-11-20
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
Georges Franju

Casting

Interesting facts

Nuits Rouges is a 1974 French-Italian crime thriller film directed by Georges Franju. The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by New Line Cinema under the title Shadowman in 1975. It is an adaptation of a 1973 French-Italian-Yugoslav TV mini-series titled "L'Homme sans visage".

Production

Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973. The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television. The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.

Jacques Champreux (Louis Feuillade's grandson) who plays one the lead roles, had directed the series that inspired the film. He also had worked on Franju's Judex, which was also based on a film series.

Nuits Rouges is Franju's last feature film.

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